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Before tackling troublesome issues, Pope Francis insists on synodality
By Thomas Reese — March 19, 2024
(RNS) — I feel that I am on the Titanic while the crew is meeting to talk about how they should listen to one another.
Vatican puts the brakes on Synod on Synodality, pushes ‘controversial’ topics to 2025
By Claire Giangravé — March 14, 2024
(RNS) — Women deacons, priestly formation and other contentious questions won’t be a part of the next synod in October.
Orthodox Christian radio hosted a panel on female deacons. Then misogyny poured in.
By Meagan Saliashvili — February 5, 2024
(RNS) — Far from clarifying the question of women deacons, the episode added fuel to an already incendiary conversation about women's ordination and the role of women in the church in general.
Pope Francis asks theologians to ‘demasculinize’ the church
By Claire Giangravé — November 30, 2023
(RNS) – ‘Women have a way of reflecting on theology that is different from us men,’ Francis told the International Theological Commission.
US Orthodox symposium on women deacons proposes a way forward
By Meagan Saliashvili — November 14, 2023
BROOKLINE, Mass. (RNS)— A consortium of Orthodox Christian scholars, clergy and lay supporters meeting this week outside Boston proposed guidelines for the church to revive the ancient practice of allowing women to be deacons.
After global summit, Pope Francis injects synodality into Vatican theology
By Claire Giangravé — November 8, 2023
(RNS) — The pope called for a ‘popular theology’ that stems from the people and is in dialogue with the world.
In Vatican summit’s closing document, agreement that synodality is church’s future
By Claire Giangravé — October 30, 2023
(RNS) — Pope Francis’ synod on synodality never sought to answer the church’s hot-button questions, but it achieved its goal of promoting dialogue.
Synod on Synodality report is disappointing but not surprising
By Thomas Reese — October 30, 2023
(RNS) — For Francis it was never about the hot-button topics.
Synod raises hopes for long-sought recognition of women in the Catholic Church
By Claire Giangravé — July 25, 2023
(RNS) — Called to examine power structures in the Catholic Church, the Synod on Synodality will grapple in large part with the role of women.
At the Catholic Church’s worldwide synod, the deacons are missing
By Phyllis Zagano — July 21, 2023
(RNS) — Many if not most Catholics think women deacons are called for.
The synod, the pope and the ordination of women
By Phyllis Zagano — December 14, 2022
(RNS) — Allowing women only in management and not in ministry ignores church history.
She was an early church deacon. Catholic women now want to reclaim her example.
By Yonat Shimron — September 2, 2022
(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 women.
Are lay cardinals next?
By Phyllis Zagano — April 21, 2022
(RNS) — Pope Francis’ reforms raise the question of reviving the tradition of lay cardinals with women in the mix.
Pope Francis calls for greater female leadership ahead of G-20 summit
By Claire Giangravé — October 20, 2021
(RNS) — The message was only the latest sign of Francis’ intent to expand women’s roles in the church.
Blocked from serving their church, Catholic women push for female deacons
By Yonat Shimron — September 14, 2021
(RNS) — There is growing momentum to restore women to the diaconate, which would allow women to serve as Catholic chaplains in prisons, hospitals and other settings.
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