Through his ministry to young adults in Miami and beyond, Father Rafael Capó seeks to enable young Hispanics to live out ...

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.

“Conclave,” Robert Harris’ 2016 novel, dramatizes the Catholic process for choosing a new ... Benitez who raises the question of women’s ordination, but Sister Agnes, played by Isabella ...

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

I returned just a few days ago from the second session of the Synod on Synodality in Rome, and I will confess to feeling a tad exhausted. As I've mentioned before, the synod is a full four weeks l ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pope Francis, background center, poses with the participants to the second session of the 16th General ...

told an assembly of bishops and laypeople earlier that the pontiff said the moment for allowing ordination of women as deacons in the church “is not ripe.” The synod process had sparked great ...

It is very frustrating, but they laid it all out,’’ said Kate McElwee, the executive director of the Women’s Ordination Conference. The first phase of the synod process ended last year by ...

Pope Francis' yearslong process to reform the Catholic Church ... Francis had said the moment "is not ripe" for allowing the ordination of women as deacons. He did not respond directly to a ...

Launched by Pope Francis in 2021, the Synod on Synodality is a three-year process geared toward making the church ... those who hoped it would usher in more official support for women's ordination ...

The multi-year synod process had sparked great hopes for change ... the executive director of the Women’s Ordination Conference. While she acknowledged a “cultural shift,” she said ...