from the institutional role. why be so public? you say you try to do this privately. and every single time i ve tried to do it privately there have been briefings and deacons and planting of stories against me and my wife. you know, the family motto is never complain, never explain, but it s just a motto. it doesn t really hold. there s a lot of complaining and a lot of explaining. endless. being done in, through leaks. through leaks. they will feed, or have a conversation with the correspondence and that correspondent will literally be spoon fed information to write the story. and at the bottom of it they will say that they have reached out to buckingham palace for comment. but the whole story is buckingham palace commenting. so, when we re being told for the last six years we can t put a statement out to protect you, but you do it for other members of the family. there comes a point where silence is betrayal. with me now is our royal correspondent, daniela relph. what s how we lear
notjust as deacons, as priests. and on top of that, pope francis has opened the synod, creating an opening for people to voice, you know, their prayerful feedback to the church. i would ask pope francis if you want to have a true discernment on this issue, i would ask you to do two things. the first one is you need to have an audience with women who are called to priesthood. whether they have been ordained as part of this movement or not, you need to talk to us and hear our experience and take that into your prayer. and the second thing i would ask of you is there s a lot of confusion right now on whether or not this topic is on the table.
that women should be ordained as priests. notjust as deacons, as priests. and on top of that, pope francis has opened the synod, creating an opening for people to voice, you know, their prayerful feedback to the church. i would ask pope francis if you want to have a true discernment on this issue, i would ask you to do two things. the first one is you need to have an audience with women who are called to priesthood. whether they have been ordained as part of this movement or not, you need to talk to us and hear our experience and take that into your prayer. and the second thing i would ask of you is there is a lot of confusion right now on whether or not this topic is on the table. you need to say that it can be
the truth of the matter is that when it comes to the conversation about the ordination of women, there has never been a better time to push this change through the institutional church. number one, in many countries, the majority of catholics believe that women should be ordained as priests notjust as deacons, as priests. and on top of that, pope francis has opened the synod, creating an opening for people to voice, you know, their prayerful feedback to the church. i would ask pope francis if you want to have a true discernment on this issue, i would ask you to do two things. the first one is you need to have an audience with women who are called to priesthood. whether they have been ordained as part of this movement or not,
is that when it comes to the conversation about the ordination of women, there has never been a better time to push this change through the institutional church. number one, in many countries, the majority of catholics believe that women should be ordained as priests notjust as deacons, as priests. and on top of that, pope francis has opened the synod, creating an opening for people to voice, you know, their prayerful feedback to the church. i would ask pope francis if you want to have a true discernment on this issue, i would ask you to do two things. the first one is you need to have an audience with women who are called to priesthood. whether they have been ordained as part of this movement or not, you need to talk to us