“It seems to me that, in the Church, we don’t know homosexuality because we don’t know homosexuals, yet we have them all over the place" explains Vatican prelate.

“I have been constantly told by people working in the Vatican that they can’t say no to women deacons, they just don’t want to say yes" - Dr Phyllis Zagano.

Pontiff invites International Theological Commission “to draw greater profit from this specific contribution of women to the understanding of the faith.”

Irish peer urges Church to ordain women as deacons.