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

The Pope has commended the "lives of sacrifice, missionary zeal, and service to the Church" of 14 newly canonized saints.

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

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 ...

Archbishop Bruno Forte, an Italian theologian and a new member of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, will present ...

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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 ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met privately with Pope Francis on Friday where the two exchanged gifts in what ...

Pope Francis met with a group of transgender and intersex Catholics and LGBTQ allies at the Vatican on Oct. 12. During the ...

In a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 20, the pope declared three nineteenth-century founders of religious orders and the ...

Pope Francis and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy focused their discussion on the repatriation of Ukrainian nationals ...