The synod concluded without movement on the question of women deacons, but kept the issue open. That was frustrating to advocates but also has helped some remain hopeful.

A meeting four years in the making said the ordination of women required further study, but it called for women to have more leadership roles, even in seminaries. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting ...

For Fiennes, it is not Benitez who raises the question of women’s ordination, but Sister Agnes, played by Isabella Rossellini, who is the only female star in the film, reflecting the lack of wom ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A yearslong process to reform the Catholic Church closes Saturday with recommendations that are expected ...

He stated that the topic of the ordination of women derives from an overly Western agenda. In his view, it diverts attention from more pressing topics. Randazzo, who is president of the Federation of ...

That amounted to an unwelcome reality check for Catholics like Kate McElwee, executive director of the U.S.-based Women’s Ordination Conference. “It feels like a betrayal of the process ...

That mission has kicked into overdrive with the creation of her campaign "God Says Now," designed to encourage participants at the ongoing Synod on Synodality in Rome to consider adding discussion of ...

Great! He is right! But will the Synod face up to the truth that women’s sacramental ordination to the diaconate needs to be urgently restored? Indeed, for a millennium, tens of thousands of women ...

Cardinal Walter Kasper, a respected German theologian and a longtime conservative voice at the Vatican, told a German church ...

When she comes up to the altar rail to receive a blessing during Communion while wearing her clerical vestments, the Rev. Anne Tropeano — known as “Father Anne” — receives a variety of ...