Advocates say allowing women to be deacons would help address longstanding complaints that women have a second-class status in the church.

Pope Francis presided over an opening Mass in St. Peter's Square with the 368 bishops and laypeople who will meet behind ...

Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, the Vatican’s doctrine chief, announced today that “based on the analysis so far…there is ...

Last year in September, it seemed to many US Catholics that the church might be on the precipice of profound ...