The issue of women deacons had been a major theme of the current Vatican synod on how to make the Catholic Church more ...

We know that the Holy Father has expressed that at this time the issue of the female diaconate is not mature and has asked ...

Argentine Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez said that a commission on women deacons created by Pope Francis in 2020 and led by ...

The time is not ripe for women to be ordained as deacons in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis has said according to the head ...

Advocates for a greater role for women in the Catholic Church say Pope Francis is failing their cause at a global meeting of ...

Around 100 synod delegates filed into the Vatican’s old synod hall yesterday afternoon seeking answers about the secretive ...

Just like male deacons, women deacons are extensively covered in early Pastoral Manuals, such as the Didascalia of the ...

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández told synod delegates that the study into female diaconate would continue, but insisted that questions on women's leadership in the Catholic Church should not be linked ...

On a barge on Rome's River Tiber, a stone's throw from the Vatican, Loan Rocher was "ordained" in a secret ceremony in ...

Pope Francis, he said on Thursday, “does not consider the question mature” and his commission could not decide in favor on women deacons. For the women who have been mobilizing and speaking in ...

In an interview before the gathering — delegates have been instructed not to talk to the media during the assembly — Davis ...

The Association of Catholic Priests has said it is “extremely disappointed” by Pope Francis’ decision to remove the issue of ...