Do synod reports show a real consensus on women deacons?

Bishops’ conferences in Australia, Austria, Luxembourg, and Switzerland have told the Vatican that local Catholics support female deacons.

The deadline passed this week for the world’s bishops’ conferences to submit feedback ahead of this October’s session of the synod on synodality.

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A handful of territories have posted their reports online, including Australia, Austria, Luxembourg, and Switzerland. 

There’s a striking convergence in those four reports: they all suggest …