ROME — Women should not be ordained as deacons, a second Vatican study commission has determined, dealing another setback to Catholic women who hope one day to be able to preside at weddings, baptisms ...

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

Washington Cardinal Robert W. McElroy visited St. Mary’s Ryken High School in Leonardtown on Dec. 3 to celebrate the Feast of ...

A high-level Vatican commission voted against allowing Catholic women to serve as deacons, maintaining the global church’s practice of all-male clergy, according to a report given to Pope Leo XIV and ...

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

While in prison in 1981, he befriended the dissident and future Czech president Vaclav Havel. Later, he became a conservative ...

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

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 ...

A Vatican commission looking into the idea of allowing women to be ordained as deacons says the Catholic Church cannot ordain ...

An overcast and misty morning of Nov. 22, 2025, greeted the people of St. Julia Parish, Weston, for the funeral Mass of their much-beloved pastor, Father Mark A. Mahoney. Father Mahoney had died on No ...