<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-news/synod-document-sets-stag… document sets stage for wide-ranging debate on women, Catholic ministries and structures</a></h2><div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="byline">by Christopher White</div><div style="font-
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Greta Gaffin is a freelance writer from Boston, Massachusetts. She has a master of theological studies degree from Boston University and a bachelor's in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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<div style="font-size: 19px; font-family: 'Georgia', serif;"><p><strong>Welcome to Monday. The annual assembly of the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests included discussion about women's ordination to the diaconate and priesthood, as well as a statement of affirmation of gay priests and their ministries. And Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers and devoted his life to peacemaking, has died. Fr. John Dear remembers him.</strong></p>
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<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-voices/us-bishops-spring-assembly… bishops' spring assembly highlights leadership's mediocrity </a></h2><div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="byline">by Michael Sean Winters</div><div style="font-size: 19px; font-family: 'Geor