The synod on synodality is exploding ideas all over the church. Some on the extreme right hope for Tridentine Masses. Some on the far left hope for changes in teachings on sex and gender. Folks in the ...

Leaders of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts on Saturday ordained five women as deacons, welcoming them into ministry as the church prepares next month to mark the 50th anniversary of the first ...

The first week of the Synod on Synodality session is in the books, and if you’ve been following the media’s account of things, you’d be forgiven for thinking the event is primarily focused on ...

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 ...

Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests to Ordain Priests and Deacons from Spain, France and U.S. in Historic Ordination in Rome on October 17, 2024 to foster Gender Equality in Ordained Ministry ...

Seminarians from the Pontifical North American College at their ordination to the diaconate in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Sept. 28, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) This essay is a Cover Story ...

A Brazilian bishop has called for the ordination of women to the diaconate for service in the Amazon region. The bishop said that 2009 revisions to canon law could allow for the ordination of women ...

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis said last week that an international commission of scholars has failed to reach a definitive conclusion about whether women were ordained as deacons in the early ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The Sunday after her confirmation, when young people raised Catholic are supposed to embrace their faith for themselves, Ellie Hidalgo’s niece begged her parents to not make her ...

The bishop of Nigeria’s Diocese of Lokoja has withdrawn the ordination certificates of four men he ordained as deacons July 12 after it was revealed he had been presented with allegedly forged ...

GARY — One is a freelance photojournalist. Among is an engineer. Still another works in information technology. They are all members of the latest diaconal ordination class of 14 men in the Catholic ...

Bishop Mark J. Seitz will ordain 17 men as deacons Friday, Aug. 6, at St. Mark Catholic Church in East El Paso. The ordination will be at 6:30 p.m. at 11700 Pebble Hills Blvd. It will be streamed live ...