The discernment about women's participation ... to the only working group whose members’ names have not been disclosed. "We don’t want to get ahead of the church." I've heard these words ...

30 met with a global delegation of women's ministry advocates, including leading proponents for restoring the female diaconate. According to Casey Stanton, co-director of the Discerning Deacons ...

Stop hiding and stop trying to relegate us to second-class citizenship.'" While ordained ministry for women is out of the question, a host of other proposals are being discussed, including calls ...

Around 300 women worldwide have now been ordained within the larger movement. Streck and Meehan both have doctorate degrees in ministry and have created a process and seminary curriculum for ...

Women deacons have become the subject of a growing debate in the Catholic Church. During his papacy, Pope Francis has established two papal commissions and one synod study group to investigate the ...

Though female deacons won’t be discussed, women’s leadership and ministry are still on the agenda. Some delegates said it would have been unreasonable to expect that such a global assembly ...

Groups supporting women in science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) fields are struggling to survive as corporations’ shrinking budgets, and cultural changes, see diversity strategies ...

Finally, in 2002, after an exhaustive 10-year study, the commission concluded: “With regard to the ordination of women to the diaconate…it pertains to the ministry of discernment which the ...

His arguments have outraged proponents of women’s ordination, who have organised a series of events outside the synod this month in Rome to press their case. While ordained ministry for women is ...

Seen by some as a progressive modernizer, Francis, 87, has nevertheless held firm on the church ... the role of women as deacons and has also referred the issue to a study group, which is ...

A 21-year-old man who had been missing for weeks was found dead at the bottom of a 50-foot-deep well outside of a Virginia church after parishioners ... based faith group Met by Love Ministries ...