Some Long Island women spoke about their desire to become a Catholic deacon, stating that they meet all the requirements, ...

The women meet all the requirements except one: they're not men. As deacons, they could preach at Mass and preside over baptisms, weddings and funerals.

The Association of Catholic Priests has hit out at the Irish bishops for failing to publicly address the Vatican’s decision ...

Pope Leo XIV ordered the release of the Summary of the Study Commission on the Female Diaconate last week, marking a new low ...

Group calls it ‘shocking’ that Vatican commission believes ‘masculinity of Christ is integral part of sacramental identity’ ...

At Epiphany of Our Lord Byzantine Catholic Church in Annandale parishioners recently venerated a rare relic of the ...

If the church approaches women’s discernment with condescension instead of curiosity, it risks undermining the process of ...

Deacon Greg Kandra provides a reflection for the readings and Gospel for the 4th Sunday of Advent, Dec. 21, 2025.

A Vatican report on women deacons published last week said that women could not be admitted to the diaconate “understood as a ...

The proportion of people in Poland regularly attending Sunday Mass last year rose by just over half a per cent from 2023 to 2024.

I would like to tell you about the other Catholic church in town, Light of Christ, which is part of the Ecumenical Catholic ...

Dr. Toni Reaves of the archdiocesan Office for Black Catholics leads “From the Manger to the Movement,” a four-week online ...