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.

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Police are searching for a man who snuck into a church in St. Bernard and stole a deacon’s wallet during Mass. It happened on May 28 during the 9:30 a.m. Mass at St. Clement Church ...

A high-level Vatican commission voted against allowing Catholic women to serve as deacons, maintaining the global Church's ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The Sullivan family, down from New Hampshire to St. Mary’s to visit grandma Jeannie Barry (third ...

Pope Francis has made it perfectly clear that he opposes ordaining women as deacons. Although I disagree with him, I accept that we are not going to see female deacons during his pontificate. But if ...

The 5½-year wait for Paul Patrick Márquez ended Oct. 1 before a packed Holy Spirit Catholic Church as he joined 16 other men in becoming ordained as deacons in the Diocese of Fresno. Following a ...

"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 ...

(RNS) — On Saturday (Sept. 3), 56 pilgrims from four countries will gather in Mexico City to celebrate St. Phoebe’s feast day and consider how they might urge the church to reclaim the diaconate for ...

Let the new pope, Leo XIV, consider elevating Catholic women to become deacons, Jeannie Barry said in the lobby of St. Mary’s Church on Hillhouse Avenue. Or as Carlos Rodriguez put it more succinctly ...

A high-level Vatican commission has voted against allowing Catholic women to serve as deacons, a decision that upholds the ...