EXCLUSIVE: England's clergy are living in a state of "anxiety" amid rising cost-of-living, housing insecurity and pension cuts.

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.

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

Antonia Brenner was twice divorced and had raised seven children when she gave up her comfortable life in Southern California ...

Sometimes called America’s “best kept secret,” Orthodoxy is embraced by about 1% of U.S. adults, according to Pew Research ...

The verdict against women deacons is the body of Christ trying to move forward into history with one foot tethered to a ...

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

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

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

The purely historical perspective does not allow us to arrive at any definitive certainty,” a Vatican report concluded. “In ...

The report noted the subject of a female diaconate is of "significant complexity" and lacks "sufficient consensus." ...

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