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.

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 ...

At the World Synod in Rome, four women joined to advocate for ordaining women as deacons. Though the topic remains off the ...

The first cohort of women became priests in 1994 at an historical service at Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire. "We had lots of ...

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

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 ...

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

That amounted to an unwelcome reality check for Catholics like Kate McElwee, executive director of the U.S.-based Women’s Ordination Conference. “It feels like a betrayal of the process ...

But that didn’t stop a half-dozen Catholic women from “ordination” in a secret ceremony in Rome that was not authorized by the Vatican. Jesuit Father Allan Deck, a professor at the Los ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...