Vatican: ‘We don’t want to preclude anything’ regarding women or married priests at Amazon summit

From Crux: 

At a press conference on the summit of bishops focusing on the Pan-Amazonian people and region set for October 2019, Vatican officials did not close the door to the possibility of opening up official ministries to women and married men.

“We don’t want to preclude anything,” said Italian Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops at the conference June 8, though adding that “the Church is currently in its classical position,” concerning women’s and married men’s ordination.

The comments were made during the presentation of the preparatory document for the summit of bishops next year focusing on the Pan-Amazon region and its peoples, called “Amazonia: New paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology.”

While the document makes no direct mention of the viri probati, meaning married priests, it does focus on the need for a “Church with an Amazonian face” that presents new perspectives for the evangelization of Amazonian people and especially indigenous people, with special attention to the need to protect and care for the environment.

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