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

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

VATICAN CITY, Dec 4 (Reuters) - A high-level Vatican commission voted against allowing Catholic women to serve as deacons, ...

But a papal commission examining the question said further study was required, and advised that women should be given other ...

A second Vatican study commission has determined that women should not be ordained as deacons, dealing another setback to ...

ROME -- A second Vatican study commission has determined that women should not be ordained as deacons, dealing another ...

Argument against female deacons includes wish to preserve ‘masculinity of Christ’ and of those who receive holy orders ...

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

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

The anniversary offers an opportunity to reflect not just on what the document says, but on the young papacy of Leo XIV.

A commission chosen by the late Pope Francis to study the possibility of women becoming deacons in the Catholic Church has ...

As the church commemorates 60 years since the closing of Vatican II, here are seven key issues and documents that serve as ...