Hofstra University Professor Phyllis Zagano has devoted most of her life to researching and advocating for making women deacons in the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis even appointed her to a ...

INDIANAPOLIS—After resisting the idea for more than three decades, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis has ordained its first class of deacons, taking some pressure off overworked priests ...

Roman Catholic Women Priests offer hope to Catholics that women priests and deacons are here now available to serve a renewed, inclusive church of equals. Roman Catholic Women Priests are leading the ...

The discernment about women's participation in the church, particularly the discernment about restoring women to the diaconate, challenges even Pope Francis to follow the synodal process of listening ...

Phyllis Zagano was sitting in the dining hall at the Santa Marta residence at the Vatican when Pope Francis came up to her and other members of a commission he named to study the issue of bringing ...

Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests to Ordain Priests and Deacons from Spain, France and U.S. in Historic Ordination in Rome on October 17, 2024 to foster Gender Equality in Ordained Ministry ...

Von George, who became an ordained Roman Catholic deacon less than one month ago in a moving ceremony at the Allentown Diocese’s cathedral, has died after a battle with cancer. The diocese moved up ...

A Roman Catholic deacon on Long Island is accused of sexually abusing a minor decades ago. According to a statement from the Diocese of Rockville Centre, the allegation was made against Deacon Richard ...

ALBANY — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany has banned a deacon from active ministry after an investigation into allegations he sexually abused a minor in the early 1990s prior to his ordination.