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

ANALYSIS: News media already has a built-in tendency to downplay nuance and highlight novelty, but this is arguably ...

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 ...

It’s been 30 years since Deacon Richard T. Smith was ordained in the Catholic church, the last 19 of which he’s spent serving ...

“Nobody should circulate wrong facts regarding the ordination of the eight deacons in the Ernakulam-Angmaly Archeparchy,” Puthur said in a note. He said the issue had been discussed at various ...

Kochi: Laity activists of the Ernakulam Angamaly archdiocese on Friday staged a protest at the Archbishop's House, Ernakulam, alleging that the Church was not allowing deacons of the archdiocese ...

The Syro-Malabar Church has clarified that some social media posts on discussions with various groups in the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly on the ordination of deacons to priesthood are ...

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 ...

Her niece’s experience is the kind of story that drove Hidalgo to co-found Discerning Deacons, an organization that argues for the ordination of women deacons. The group launched in 2021 ...

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The ordination of female deacons is no longer on the agenda during a global assembly at the Vatican, but will be discussed separately. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Vatican City Pope ...