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 ...

Furthermore, Catholic teaching bars women from ordination to the priesthood, a decision that Francis has maintained, although ...

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

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 ...

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.

told the extraordinary assembly of 368 bishops and laypeople that Francis had said the moment "is not ripe" for allowing the ordination of women as deacons. He did not respond directly to a ...

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 ...

(Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – After the Vatican’s doctrine czar made it clear that the admittance of women to the diaconate is off the table for the time being, participants in the ...

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 ...