Ordination of women Archives

Women’s role in Amazon church does not depend on diaconate, sisters say

Oct 19, 2019

Whether or not the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon helps open the door to ordaining women deacons, women will continue to play a fundamental role in ministry in the church in the region, religious sisters said.

By Barbara Fraser

At day two, Amazon synod agrees on questions, not on answers

Oct 8, 2019

Though it is only day two of this month’s Synod of Bishops on the Amazon, participants have nearly unanimously flagged a regional priest shortage and the need for a clear ministry for women as key issues up for discussion, yet while the questions seem to be clear, the answers are far from it.

By Elise Harris

Women play outsized role in missionary activity in Amazon

Sep 9, 2019

The suggestion of a need to identify the “type of official ministry that can be conferred on women” included in the working document of the upcoming Synod for the Pan-Amazon region has been controversial, but Bishop Adriano Ciocca Vasino of the Territorial Prelature of São Félix in Brazil thinks the document is “timid” about the role of the women in the region, which he says “in many communities is already diaconal.”

By Eduardo Campos Lima

Study: US religious orders overwhelmingly back women deacons

Aug 2, 2018

A new survey has found that the majority of U.S. Catholic religious orders believe women should be allowed to serve as ordained deacons, lending support to an issue currently under study at the Vatican amid pressure for women to be given greater roles in the Church.

By Nicole Winfield

Citing workplace equality, Irish Prime Minister gives support to women’s ordination

Jun 27, 2018

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has backed his culture minister after she clashed with the Dublin archbishop over the question of the ordination of women.

By Charles Collins

Irish government official calls for women’s ordination in exchange with archbishop

Jun 26, 2018

Irish Culture Minister Josepha Madigan has called for the ordination of women after a war of words with Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin about the vocation situation in Ireland.

By Charles Collins