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 ...

After decades of progressive dissent, the leaders of the Christian Reformed Church in America finally took a firm stand ...

A lot of people have sacrificed much to participate in the synod meetings. Who wants to come away with little to show from it ...

Cardinal Víctor Fernández at a speech at the general congregation on Oct. 21 recalled that for the Holy Father the question ...

As members of the Synod of Bishops entered the last week of their meeting in Rome, the synod's secretary-general urged them ...

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Cardinal-designate Timothy Radcliffe offered his morning reflection before synod members inside Vatican's Paul VI Audience ...

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

"This is just one synod. There will be others. We do not have to do everything, just take the next step,"  Cardinal-designate ...

Even if some members of the Synod of Bishops end up feeling disappointed by the results of the synod, “God’s providence is at ...

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