Essay: Before tackling troublesome issues, Pope Francis insists on synodality
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE says – in an article first published on Religion News Service – that he feels like he is on the Titanic while the crew is meeting to talk about how they should listen to one another…
Vatican puts the brakes on Synod on Synodality, pushes ‘controversial’ topics to 2025
Vatican City RNS A three-year process aimed at putting the most pressing concerns of lay Catholics front and centre in the church was reshuffled on Thursday, as the Vatican announced that it plans to push discussion of “doctrinal, ethical and pastoral issues that are controversial” to June, 2025. The controversial issues include allowing women to […]
Essay: The synod, the Pope and the ordination of women
PHYLLIS ZAGANO, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says allowing women only in management and not in ministry ignores church history…
Blocked from serving their church, Catholic women push for female deacons
RNS Casey Stanton wanted to offer encouragement, love and healing to the inmates at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women, where she served as a chaplain intern a few years ago. But as a Catholic woman she could not represent her church there in any official capacity. The state of North Carolina requires chaplains […]
As Amazon synod closes, bishops ask the Pope to allow married priests
Vatican CityRNS Bishops voted on the final document of their Vatican summit on the Pan-Amazonian region on Saturday, taking preliminary steps forward toward the ordination of married men to the priesthood, the female diaconate and the creation of an Amazonian Rite. The bishops approved with a two thirds majority all the 140 paragraphs in the […]
Two-thirds of Amazon Catholic bishops support married priests, says Brazil bishop
Vatican CityRNS According to one Brazil bishop attending the Vatican summit on the Amazon region, a majority of Brazilian bishops are in favor of allowing the ordination of married men to the priesthood. “Of the bishops who are in the Amazon region, I guess two-thirds are in favour of the viri probati,” said Emeritus Bishop Erwin […]