(ANSA) - Vatican City, May 12 - Pope Francis on Thursday said he would set up a study commission to look at creating female deacons like those who existed in the early Church. He said women deacons are a "possibility for today". The pope announced the commission during an audience with UISG, the International Union of Superiors General, while answering a question. The UISG is a worldwide, canonically approved organization of superiors general of institutes of Catholic women religious. Francis has often said he would like to see the role of women in the Church boosted.

