Demonstrators in Rome demand women be allowed to be ordained as Catholic priests:::: Kate McElwee, Executive Director, ...

Although the synod’s general rapporteur, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, stated on Thursday that “nothing new” specifically ...

Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández made the announcement during the synod’s afternoon session Oct. 2, the first official ...

A group of men and women gathered at a chapel near the Vatican, confidently praying that the church would restore the female ...

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On the first day of the final session of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality, a study group responsible for evaluating the ...

Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, the Vatican’s doctrine chief, announced today that “based on the analysis so far…there is ...

Never can a bishop, or any other Christian, think of himself ‘without others,’” Pope Francis said Wednesday at the first ...

ANALYSIS: The tone of the opening days of the Synod’s final assembly signals that those hoping for sweeping change may be ...

The tone of the opening days of the synod’s final general assembly makes it apparent that, for the moment, there is no talk ...

"Rushing" to open the diaconate to women in the Catholic Church would short-circuit a necessary reflection on the relationship between ordained ministry and charismatic leadership, particularly as it ...