Dr Luca Badini Confalonieri – 17 December 2025

The Synodal process has been hijacked. One of the main discussion points throughout the Synod was the urgent need to increase women’s access to church ministries, with indications that the prospect of restoring women deacons was a real possibility. Instead, a committee of 10 Vatican insiders — plus not one, but two Popes — decided against it.

This is evidence that Catholics everywhere — even Synodal participants themselves — have been kept in the dark. Below is a forensic examination of all the machinations to deceive and deny women’s role in the church and how the Vatican has lied about their decision-making process. Including the difficult question we have to ask:

Did this story of subterfuge come about because Pope Francis did not want the sexism behind the decision to ruin the ‘spirit of synodality’?

Read more  https://www.wijngaardsinstitute.com/petrocchi_commission_women_deacons/