This month’s delayed priestly ordination of eight deacons of the Ernakulam Archdiocese of the Syro-Malabar Church has ...

TOOWOOMBA Bishop Ken Howell has ordained three men, Sang Duc Bui, BJ Perrett and Sean Woods, to the transitional diaconate at ...

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.

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.

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

Eight deacons ordained as priests in Syro-Malabar Church met with rebels demanding withdrawal of controversial circular.

TWO Brisbane married men Hugo Silva and Martin Lewis will be ordained to the permanent diaconate at St Stephen’s Cathedral on ...

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 ...

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 ...

But it referred questions on the ordination of female deacons, further outreach to the LGBTQ+ community and married priests for further study. The outcome calmed the fears of church conservatives ...