Hey Glass Ceiling Breakers: The Vatican Might Be Hiring

Cool Pope Francis is known to praise the “feminine genius” but now he’s being asked how women can play a larger role in leading the Catholic Church. Pope Francis responded by saying the Vatican should consider ordaining women as deacons, which is a significant promotion from the choir. This, of course, has been an issue that Catholic women have wanted to address for decades (centuries if you count Phoebe) and although it would still be short of the priesthood, ordaining women as deacons would be the first time the Catholic Church introduced women into an otherwise all-male clergy.