Around 100 synod delegates filed into the Vatican’s old synod hall yesterday afternoon seeking answers about the secretive Vatican-instituted study group that had, among other issues, been tasked with looking into the possibility of ordaining women deacons.
Colleen Dulle
Colleen Dulle is the Vatican Correspondent at America and co-hosts the "Inside the Vatican" podcast. She is the author of Struck Down, Not Destroyed: Keeping the Faith as a Vatican Reporter (Image, 2025).
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Know justice, know peace
A Reflection for Tuesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time, by Colleen Dulle
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Synod Diary: At the synod’s ecumenical prayer service, a cry for unity in a world at war
The cry for peace and unity at the synod’s ecumenical vigil struck me as particularly moving at a time of war that has exacerbated the fractures between the three “People of the Book”—Christians, Jews and Muslims.
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Secretive Synod study group says no to women deacons
Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, the Vatican’s doctrine chief, announced today that “based on the analysis so far…there is still no room for a positive decision” on ordaining women deacons.
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Ecclesiastes tells us that we will never understand
A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Vincent de Paul, by Colleen Dulle
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In a world obsessed with violence, Christ’s message of peace is necessary
A Reflection for the Memorial of the Passion of St. John the Baptist, by Colleen Dulle
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‘A court with many lords and few ladies’: Mary Ann Glendon on her experiences of sexism in the Vatican
‘In the Courts of Three Popes’ gives us Mary Ann Glendon’s journey from Vatican outsider to insider and provides a captivating frame for her examination of the Vatican’s intertwined grandeur and dysfunction.
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Report: The long, strange journey of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
Colleen Dulle reports on Archbishop Vigano’s trajectory from Vatican civil servant to excommunicant.
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The Jesuit roots of the synod’s ‘conversations in the spirit’
The method has deep roots in a form of communal discernment that was developed in Canada after the Second Vatican Council.
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Martha, Mary and Lazarus remind us: Deep faith can be complicated.
A Reflection for the Memorial of Saints Martha, Mary, and Lazarus, by Colleen Dulle