Ireland's National Synodal Assembly has voted to keep exploring women's ordination to the diaconate. Sister Mary Barron, newly appointed to the Dicastery for Evangelization, has also asked "who am I to say" whether the door to women priests is open or closed. David Hahn looks at Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, the 2025 Vatican commission on women deacons and the biblical picture of priesthood from Adam to Christ the Bridegroom, and argues that no vote can settle this question.

Chapters:
00:00 Ireland’s synod votes on women deacons
02:25 Sister Mary Barron and the Church’s answer
04:33 The Church is not a democracy
06:13 Why only men? It starts with Adam
08:59 Christ, fatherhood and the Bridegroom
11:21 Women in salvation history and Our Lady
12:45 What about deaconesses in the early Church?
14:57 Who the deaconesses really were
16:33 Did Jesus choose men to avoid offence?
17:53 What does God want from his Church?

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