Wilson turned professional last month at the LPGA’s Kroger Queen City Championship. The 2022 U.S. Girls’ Junior champion ...

Before this month’s Synod at the Vatican, Pope Francis took the question of allowing women deacons off the agenda, referring this and other hot-button issues to study groups. That distressed many ...

ROME — Many important issues are being considered at the Roman Catholic Church’s Synod of Synodality, its groundbreaking ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

On a barge on Rome's River Tiber, a stone's throw from the Vatican, Loan Rocher was "ordained" in a secret ceremony in ...