But a papal commission examining the question said further study was required, and advised that women should be given other ...

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A high-level Vatican commission voted against allowing Catholic women to serve as deacons, maintaining the global church’s practice of all-male clergy, according to a report given to Pope Leo XIV and ...

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A commission set up by Pope Francis to study women deacons has voted against the possibility of ordaining women deacons while ...

Beth Allison Barr challenges the narrative that women have never exercised church authority. In 2021, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler reaffirmed his denomination’s stance ...

By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY, Dec 4 (Reuters) - A high-level Vatican commission voted against allowing Catholic women to ...

The Vatican today released a synthesis report of the key themes of the study commission on the female diaconate that says “the purely historical ...

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