We know that the Holy Father has expressed that at this time the issue of the female diaconate is not mature and has asked ...

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

Following the first assembly of the synod on synodality in 2023, Pope Francis set up 10 study groups to reflect more deeply ...

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

Around 100 synod delegates filed into the Vatican’s old synod hall yesterday afternoon seeking answers about the secretive ...

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 ...

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Just like male deacons, women deacons are extensively covered in early Pastoral Manuals, such as the Didascalia of the ...

I think we have to look at the question very much from … the Spirit. ‘Is the Spirit calling women?’” said Sister Mary Theresa ...

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