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The archbishop of Paris has offered to resign after admitting to having had an “ambiguous” relationship with a woman in 2012

Two vicars general abruptly resign in Archdiocese of Paris Two key collaborators of Archbishop Michel Aupetit quit within four months of each other For some, the way Archbishop Michel Aupetit administers Paris Archdiocese would have played a role in these resignations. (VINCENT ISORE/IP3 PRESS/MAXPPP) A vicar general in the Archdiocese of Paris has shocked Catholics in the French capital by abruptly announcing his resignation from the key post at the beginning of Holy Week. Father Benoist de Sinety, who had been in the post since 2016, stepped down on March 30 and announced that he was tak...

It was May 21, 2020, a day promised to be happy and peaceful. The first coronavirus lockdown in France had been lifted only ten days earlier and the spring weather on this Ascension Thursday made the Alpine peaks shine. In the family chalet, everyone was getting restless. Anne, who is a Catholic theologian, and her husband had arrived the previous day. They were taking over the house from their son and his family who had stayed at the mountain haven during the weeks of lockdown. But a curious idea surfaced during a conversation that day, which would turn everything upside down. While the fa...

Just a family joke at first, a French female theologian’s declared candidacy to become Archbishop of Lyon has furthered debate on the place of women in Church governance

. In May 2016, Pope Francis responded to a question posed at the triennial assembly of the International Union of Superiors General (UISG): If women religious are already performing the many ministries of deacons, why not form a commission to study the restoration of women to the diaconate? The pope responded immediately, naming 12 scholars the following August to the Commission for the Study of the Diaconate of Women who met in Rome four times and returned a report by June 2018. The pope gave a portion of the report to the UISG leadership at their May 2019 assembly. It has not been published...