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

Thomas O'Loughlin argues synodality remains a buzzword unless it changes how the Church acts. He uses a Greek village story ...

Christopher White, a Senior Fellow at Georgetown University and former Vatican correspondent, joins News4JAX anchor Bruce ...

The pontiff offers something rare: a pastor-leader urging the church to reclaim the dignity of every person — not as an ...

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

At the time of his election in May and in the months immediately following, this correspondent expressed a cautious ...

It’s now generally accepted that for Catholics ‘the way of being Church in the future’, as Pope Francis described it and as ...

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

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

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

Papal commitment to synodality is clear, but can the same be said for the global Church? When some dioceses are deeply engaged while others remain indifferent or even obstructive, is it time to ...

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