Pope Leo's selection had spurred optimism that the Church's stance on female deacons might change. That was not to be the ...

ANALYSIS: By reshaping competencies, tightening accountability and institutionalizing consultation, the new regulations ...

A Vatican commission voted against endorsing the admission of women to the diaconate, according to a report from the cardinal ...

The opinion by the head of a commission charged with considering the question in effect states that the Catholic Church ...

On the sidelines of the event, the bishop spoke with UCA News' special correspondent Rock Ronald Rozario about the program's ...

The Local Organising Committee (LOC) for World Youth Day Seoul 2027 has released the gathering’s official prayer, marking ...

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle’s stirring keynote address set the tone for the opening of the Great Pilgrimage of Hope 2025, ...

A Vatican-appointed commission says current church teaching does not allow women to be ordained as Catholic deacons.

The purely historical perspective does not allow us to arrive at any definitive certainty,” a Vatican report concluded. “In ...

The Vatican published on Dec. 4 the summary of the work carried out by the commissions studying the possibility of admitting ...

The group was split 5-5 on a statement that held Jesus' masculinity and that of all who receive holy orders "is not ...

I hope you will pray for me, because the cross that was placed on me is very heavy,' Archbishop Garcera said in a video ...