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.

This offer is open to new deacons in the Church of England, Church of Ireland, Church in Wales and The Scottish Episcopal Church during the first year after ordination. Living outside the UK? We also ...

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

told an assembly of bishops and laypeople earlier that the pontiff said the moment for allowing ordination of women as deacons in the church “is not ripe.” The ynod process had sparked great ...

The latter contains early ordination rites for bishops, priests and deacons, including for women deacons. Church legislation, such as under Emperor Theodosius (390 AD) and Emperor Justinian I (529-564 ...

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 21 - The time is not ripe for women to be ordained as deacons in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis ...

A major Vatican meeting gathering clerics and laity across the globe to discuss the future of the Catholic Church closes ... talk of the ordination of female priests or deacons, instead referring ...

Eight deacons were ordained ... on the uniform Mass. The ordination, originally scheduled in December 2023, was postponed following the liturgy dispute in the Church. Their ordination was ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Catholic Church ... not require ordination. At the meeting Oct. 24, the cardinal clarified that while the pope believes the time is not ripe for women deacons, “he ...

A meeting four years in the making said the ordination of women ... more leadership roles in the church. But on the question of whether women could be ordained as deacons, the church said the ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pope Francis, background center, poses with the participants to the second session of the 16th General ...