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.

A Reflection for Tuesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time, by Colleen Dulle

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.

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.

A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Vincent de Paul, by Colleen Dulle

A Reflection for the Memorial of the Passion of St. John the Baptist, by Colleen Dulle

'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.

Colleen Dulle reports on Archbishop Vigano’s trajectory from Vatican civil servant to excommunicant.

The method has deep roots in a form of communal discernment that was developed in Canada after the Second Vatican Council.

A Reflection for the Memorial of Saints Martha, Mary, and Lazarus, by Colleen Dulle