Re: “Pope Leo XIV urges release of imprisoned journalists, affirms gift of free speech and press” (Might 12, World):
Thanks for the numerous articles overlaying our new pope, Leo XIV. It will appear he helps a powerful and free press, a topic close to and expensive to The Instances.
We are going to be taught within the days to return the place Leo stands on many subjects. I hope he might be open to increasing the function of girls within the Church. As a lifelong Catholic who has been concerned in Catholic Church work in any respect ranges, I worth the work that ladies do to maintain the Church related and alive. Options to the world’s issues require management and imaginative and prescient from girls, or the efforts will solely be half as profitable as they could possibly be. Step one to ordain girls to the diaconate is just not as huge a leap as some individuals make it. The early Church ordained girls to this service. We want the ladies now.
I hope and praying for a return to a practice that has been misplaced for too lengthy.
John Hickman, Seattle
