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Discussing a number of proposals he offered the synod fathers to think about, Canadian Archbishop Paul-Andre Durocher said, "I think we should really start looking seriously at the possibility of ordaining women deacons because the diaconate in the church's tradition has been defined as not being ordered toward priesthood but toward ministry."

Pope Francis asked the Synod Fathers to engage in “a profound discernment to seek to understand what the Lord wants of his Church.”

Pope Francis said that Christians can't be like Pontius Pilate and wash our hands of politics.

Pope Francis has been treated as if he were just person running for president.

Congratulations to Timothy Law Snyder, Ph.D., who was inaugurated as the 16th president of the Jesuit university in Los Angeles.

The lawsuit filed Oct. 1 contends that Trinity Health violates provisions of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act and the Rehabilitation Act by denying the full range of emergency care, including pregnancy termination when necessary.

Pope Francis has warned against having a hard heart that is closed to God’s mercy.Speaking on Tuesday morning during Mass at the Casa Santa Marta before joining the Synod Fathers gathered in the Vatican Synod Hall, the Pope urged the faithful not to put one’s own convictions or a list of

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Pope Francis reassured the synod fathers that the Catholic doctrine on marriage had not been put into question at the Extraordinary Synod in 2014 and so retains its full validity.

Here is the danger: that assisted suicide becomes the cheap alternative to health care.

Father Stephen V. Sundborg, S.J., see his Catholic Jesuit university following the Jesuit pope "in mercy, in dialogue, in service of others."

California is the latest and largest U.S. state to legalize physician-assisted suicide.

"I would have expected a lot more involvement by the Vatican—the time for cautious diplomacy is at an end," said Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kiev-Halych, major archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

The Hungarian cardinal, Peter Erdo, is playing a crucial role in the synod on the family, and now a somewhat controversial one.

Unrest flared in early October throughout the West Bank and Jerusalem, which has experienced tensions during September, largely over the status of the contested holy site of the Temple Mount or Haram al-Sharif.

We Americans enjoy a beautiful heritage of religious freedom. Claiming that heritage today requires encounter and engagement between people who hold different viewpoints, so that we can grow to respect the right and duty of every person to live in accordance with her or his conscience.

Francis says synod is not a 'talk shop' or conference but 'a protected space where the church experiences that action of the Holy Spirit.'

Rather than the stage on which our story is unfolding, the universe becomes the crux of the story, and we just a part.