VATICAN CITY (AP) — A yearslong process to reform the Catholic Church closes Saturday with recommendations that are expected ...

Unlike other Christian denominations like Protestantism, the Catholic Church remains firmly opposed to the ordination of women. They are relegated instead to support roles, whether in catechism or ...

told the extraordinary assembly of 368 bishops and laypeople that Francis had said the moment "is not ripe" for allowing the ordination of women as deacons. He did not respond directly to a ...

For Fiennes, it is not Benitez who raises the question of women’s ordination, but Sister Agnes, played by Isabella Rossellini, who is the only female star in the film, reflecting the lack of wom ...

That mission has kicked into overdrive with the creation of her campaign "God Says Now," designed to encourage participants at the ongoing Synod on Synodality in Rome to consider adding discussion of ...

The synod concluded without movement on the question of women deacons, but kept the issue open. That was frustrating to advocates but also has helped some remain hopeful.

Furthermore, Catholic teaching bars women from ordination to the priesthood, a decision that Francis has maintained, although he has allowed studies of female deacons. During previous papacies the ...

(Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – After the Vatican’s doctrine czar made it clear that the admittance of women to the diaconate is off the table for the time being, participants in the ...

A meeting four years in the making said the ordination of women required further study, but it called for women to have more leadership roles, even in seminaries. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting ...

Cardinal Walter Kasper, a respected German theologian and a longtime conservative voice at the Vatican, told a German church ...

The Vatican’s top doctrinal officer, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, told an assembly of bishops and laypeople earlier that the pontiff said the moment for allowing ordination of women as ...