An extract from Brendan Hoban's article (Association of Catholic Priests)
We need something different from successive study-groups who invariably manage to produce different arguments and yet arrive again and again at the word NO.
What seemed an obvious, natural and necessary first step towards the future of our Church has suddenly been shuffled to the sidelines. Another opportune moment to move the dial of reform forward has been missed. Another example of church leadership unable or unwilling to further real change. Another kick in the teeth for Catholic women.
And, more importantly, if a church can’t live with women deacons, what chance has it of making a go of a synodal Church? Very little if anything at all after the hit that reform of our Church has just taken.