In the first week of February, the Vatican department that oversees Catholic Church doctrine accepted written testimonies about women in the church whose experience conforms with those called to be ...

Last fall, I had the incredible privilege of being one of 55 pilgrims to Rome with the organization Discerning Deacons, including people from the United States, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, and Australia.

Newly Ordained Deacons from First Baptist Church. From left: Jean Panzitta, Gail Nossavage, David Miller, Joseph Stemba, Dorothy Miller, and Jane Lussi. Absent from photo Kenneth Jordan. Photo by Sam ...

JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - In a heartfelt ceremony Tuesday night, Quinton Thomas was ordained a transitional deacon at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church. Blessed Sacrament is Thomas’s home church. His ...

A wooden statue of a prengant woman in front of Amazonian members outside the Vatican on Oct. 19, 2019. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.) Listen SÃO PAULO – A document released earlier this month showed ...

Laura McMasters, a longtime campus minister, performed her first baptism in February—welcoming an international student into the Christian faith and United Methodist community. McMasters, a deacon, ...

"Being ordained is not an ascent but a descent, whereby we make ourselves small, lower ourselves and divest ourselves," Pope Francis said in a message to 23 men from eight countries, including three ...

But a papal commission examining the question said further study was required, and advised that women should be given other leadership roles in the Catholic Church. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting ...

(RNS) — Pope Francis has made perfectly clear that he is opposed to ordaining women as deacons. Although I disagree with him, I accept that we are not going to see women deacons during his pontificate ...