In the final days of the most significant Catholic gathering since the 1960s, the prospect of women being ordained appears ...

We know that the Holy Father has expressed that at this time the issue of the female diaconate is not mature and has asked ...

Argentine Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez said that a commission on women deacons created by Pope Francis in 2020 and led by ...

The issue of women deacons had been a major theme of the current Vatican synod on how to make the Catholic Church more ...

The time is not ripe for women to be ordained as deacons in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis has said according to the head ...

Around 100 synod delegates filed into the Vatican’s old synod hall yesterday afternoon seeking answers about the secretive ...

Following the first assembly of the synod on synodality in 2023, Pope Francis set up 10 study groups to reflect more deeply ...

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Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández told synod delegates that the study into female diaconate would continue, but insisted that questions on women's leadership in the Catholic Church should not be linked ...

Advocates for a greater role for women in the Catholic Church say Pope Francis is failing their cause at a global meeting of ...

Just like male deacons, women deacons are extensively covered in early Pastoral Manuals, such as the Didascalia of the ...

On a barge on Rome's River Tiber, a stone's throw from the Vatican, Loan Rocher was "ordained" in a secret ceremony in ...