The women meet all the requirements except one: they're not men. As deacons, they could preach at Mass and preside over baptisms, weddings and funerals.

COMMENTARY: The council profoundly advanced our understanding of what we believe in ways that can immensely help our spiritual and moral lives today.

A Swedish youth choir marked the feast of St. Lucy by singing at a Mass at the Vatican on Thursday, Dec. 11. Students from ...

In his visit to Mozambique, Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin paid a risky visit to the war-ravaged town of ...

A Vatican report on women deacons published last week said that women could not be admitted to the diaconate “understood as a ...

An interpreter broke down in tears while translating an 11-year-old Ukrainian boy’s testimony about his mother’s death in a ...

The 62 objects returned were first sent to Rome for an exhibition in 1925.

Pope Leo XIV marked the popular Marian feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe by asking that Mary to intercede in the effort to ...

In fact, the Wikimedia Foundation announced Dec. 2 that "Deaths in 2025" -- an entry that includes Pope Francis -- was their ...

In a time marked by increased conflict and division, we need authentic testimonies of human kindness and charity to remind us ...

Pope Leo XIV has met with members of Italy’s intelligence services and warned them not to use confidential information for ...

An Inuvialuit kayak more than a century old was unveiled Tuesday at t Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., along with a ...