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VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Leo’s updates to the Vatican labor code attempt to streamline a Curia under pressure, from pension ...

Discussions over women becoming deacons, who are ordained and can assist with services but cannot celebrate Mass, have ...

Pope Leo's selection had spurred optimism that the Church's stance on female deacons might change. That was not to be the ...

In the evocative new documentary Nuns vs the Vatican, director Lorena Luciano sets out to illuminate the stories of silence, ...

In an audience with people who work in the Italian intelligence sector, Pope Leo XIV recalled the importance of conducting ...

(RNS) — A Vatican-appointed commission says current church teaching does not allow women to be ordained as Catholic deacons.

But a papal commission examining the question said further study was required, and advised that women should be given other ...

The pope also said that Europe should be involved in security guarantees for Ukraine after meeting with Ukrainian President ...

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