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As the Synod is underway in Rome, this review walks us through what is at stake. Key insights of the Second Vatican Council are brought

A long time ago (40 years to be exact) in a land far away (northern Indiana), I think I functioned as a deacon. I performed diaconal tasks and duties. I think I was a deacon … or was I not?

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Dozens of women holding banners calling for female ordination marched to the Vatican on Friday.

ANALYSIS: While the synod’s working document gave some women’s ordination advocates hope that the Church would open up to the female diaconate, no ordained mi...

The unprecedented gathering of 464 Catholic clergy and laypeople, including women, begins Oct. 4 at the Vatican.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) —  The unprecedented gathering of 464 Catholic clergy and laypeople, including women, begins Oct. 4 at the Vatican.

(RNS) — Many if not most Catholics think women deacons are called for.

As the Synod of Synodality approaches the First Session in October of 2023, its overseers recently released the document Instrumentum Laboris (IL). This

Although the competition for most heretical and dangerous statements is fierce in the new document from the Synod on Synodality, Instrumentum Laboris,...

The Instrumentum laboris is laborious indeed. Whether all that labor will be an instrument for anything other than more labor remains to be seen.