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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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), has reportedly ...

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

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

"Rushing to ask for the ordination of deaconesses is not the most important way to promote women today," Cardinal Fernández ...

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

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