Theologian wants the Church to go deeper
Theologian Eckholt sees encouragement in Report on Women's Diaconate "Open to Further Exploration" Theologian Margit Eckholt sees the final report of the Vatican's theological commission on the possibility of women's ordination as not a clear rejection of the diaconate for women. For her, it is a "first step" in this direction. Margit Eckholt said this in an interview with the portal katholisch.de on Tuesday. "In my view, the text itself is not a stop sign, but rather an encouragement to think further and continue working." The text is remarkable because it shows which topics were discussed in a nuanced way and presents concrete voting results within the commission. The text's tendency shows "that we are still dealing with an open theological question that requires further work." Renewed consultations? Eckholt herself has worked on this topic and co-authored a paper on it for the German reform process, the Synodal Path. She confir...
