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“This could set back the movement for women’s equality in the Church decades,” says Jamie Manson, a columnist and the books editor for the National Catholic Reporter. The LGBT movement, too, will suffer if married men are ordained, she says. Other topics explored in the episode:

• a female diaconate — threat or menace?
• and those four conservative cardinals pressing Pope Francis to clarify whether people who divorce and remarry without first getting an annulment are adulterers. What to make of Francis’ silence?
• finally, do we liberal Catholics — along with the mainstream press — love Pope Francis too unconditionally?

Click here to read the National Catholic Reporter column which prompted our conversation:

https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/grace-margins/pope-francis-campaigning-married-priests