Wilson turned professional last month at the LPGA’s Kroger Queen City Championship. The 2022 U.S. Girls’ Junior champion ...

Before this month’s Synod at the Vatican, Pope Francis took the question of allowing women deacons off the agenda, referring this and other hot-button issues to study groups. That distressed many ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

However, he underscored that the Pontiff “is very concerned” about the role of women in the Church and therefore called for ...

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

An open dispute over the future role of women has overshadowed the final week of the synod of Catholic bishops in Rome, ...

The number of Catholics and permanent deacons in the world rose in 2022, while the number of seminarians, priests, men and ...