Great! He is right! But will the Synod face up to the truth that women’s sacramental ordination to the diaconate needs to be urgently restored? Indeed, for a millennium, tens of thousands of women ...

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.

When I entered the Jesuits in 2014, I knew that ordination to the diaconate was a part of formation, but I didn't think much about it. Founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jes ...

Cardinal Víctor Fernández on Monday reaffirmed Pope Francis’ position against women’s access to the diaconate ... that “rushing to ask for the ordination of deaconesses is not today ...

“Rushing to ask for the ordination of deaconesses is not today ... Pope Francis’ position against women’s access to the diaconate, an issue that will continue to be evaluated by a ...

Such titles do not entail sacred ordination — and do not bestow the full powers of a deacon, who, in most cases, can stand in for a priest. The global church is split on the question of ...

(RNS) — The issue of women deacons had been a major theme of the current Vatican synod on how to make the Catholic Church more welcoming and transparent. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The head of the ...

a step hailed by advocates for female ordination. “Up until now, it’s mostly been a theological conversation or historical conversation,” Ms. Hidalgo, of Discerning Deacons, said on Friday.

and that is the question of the diaconate.” At the same time, he said, there is an ongoing theological discussion with one group saying, “ordination is not ordered exclusively to the ...

“If it turns out that in the past women preached during the celebration of the Eucharist or exercised authority without having been ordained deacons ... and not a true ordination.” ...

thwarting discussion of women becoming priests or deacons in the world’s largest Christian denomination. But that didn’t stop a half-dozen Catholic women from “ordination” in a secret ...