Re: “Pope Leo XIV urges release of imprisoned journalists, affirms gift of free speech and press” (Could 12, World):
Thanks for the various articles protecting 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’ll study within the days to return the place Leo stands on many subjects. I hope he will likely be open to increasing the position 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 girls 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 may very well be. Step one to ordain girls to the diaconate just isn’t 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 convention that has been misplaced for too lengthy.
John Hickman, Seattle
