Leo XIV’s meeting with Sarah Mullally fuels legal campaign against male-only priesthood - LifeSite
Mon Jul 20, 2026 - 7:09 am EDT
PARIS (LifeSiteNews) — French legal scholars have pointed to Pope Leo XIV’s cordial reception of female Anglican “archbishop” Sarah Mullally in renewed efforts to have the Catholic Church’s male-only priesthood treated as unlawful sex discrimination.
In an article published in the French newspaper La Croix on July 12, a group of French academics pushed to challenge the Catholic Church’s exclusion of women from Holy Orders, arguing that Pope Leo’s April reception of Mullally has reignited the issue as one of unlawful sex discrimination under European law.
“The exclusion of women from ordained ministries constitutes, from the standpoint of ordinary anti-discrimination law, a differentiation that is difficult to justify,” the French legal scholars wrote.
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The article stated that Leo XIV’s …
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