The movement for restoring women to the diaconate is steeped in love and faith, not activism or anger. It is not just a “women’s issue” but a human issue.
Women in the Church
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
For first time in history, Pope Francis gives women right to vote at the synod
For the first time in the history of the synod, Pope Francis has given women the right to vote and has also made a radical change to the membership of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
North America synod document calls the church to welcome women, LGBT people and youth
With church leaders slated to meet in October for the next phase of the Synod on Synodality, the bishops conferences of the U.S. and Canada released a report summarizing the virtual meetings conducted with lay and ordained Catholics earlier this year.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Praying for a child who has left the faith? Join the St. Monica club.
The St. Monica Ministry is composed mostly of mothers but welcomes anyone who wishes to meet regularly to pray for people who have left the Catholic Church.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: Why Nicaragua suspended ties with the Vatican
President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua suspended diplomatic ties with the Vatican in what appears to be retaliation for Pope Francis’ likening his regime to “a communist dictatorship in 1917, or a Hitlerian one in 1935.”
Posted inFaith, Interviews
Cardinal McElroy on how Pope Francis has changed the church—and why some U.S. bishops are opposed to it
Reflecting on Pope Francis’ 10 years at the Vatican, Cardinal Robert McElroy says that “there has been a fundamental shift in perspective, of cultures and sometimes of priorities within the life of the church.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What Catholic women need to hear from Pope Francis—and what they don’t
We have a ways to go before our church reaches equality. But I refuse to allow my faith to stall until the Holy Father catches up to the Holy Spirit.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Pope Francis has done many great things. But on sex abuse, he hasn’t done enough.
With Pope Francis’ papacy reaching its 10-year mark, what we have right now is a church that talks endlessly about openness and welcome, but the front steps feel hopelessly broken down. Who will fix them?
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis has made women leaders at the Vatican. But in the hierarchy, resistance remains.
The number of women working in the Vatican has increased during Pope Francis’ 10 years as pope, though women still face resistance from certain members of the church.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Cardinal McElroy: Sex and sin need a new framework in the church
“Our sexual lives have many areas of sinfulness and I’m not challenging that,” Cardinal McElroy says this week on the Jesuitical podcast. “All I’m saying is that in the Christian moral life, they don’t automatically represent mortal sin.”