The birds can produce over 24 beautiful and complex tunes. Both female and male cardinals sing, but the female's song is ...

Cardinal Steiner emphasized that “women participate a lot” and that they are in turn “leaders of our communities.” ‘Why Not Restore the Ordained Female Diaconate?’ The Brazilian ...

Cardinal Victor Fernández also stated that the female diaconate question, although Pope Francis considers it not “mature,” is ...

A meeting four years in the making said the ordination of women required further study, but it called for women to have more ...

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Though initially assigned to an external working group, the issue of the female diaconate resurfaced multiple times during the second session of the Synod, which concluded October 27 in Rome. In its ...

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I am convinced that we cannot wait to take steps forward for the empowerment of women in the church” by distinguishing what requires ordination and what does not, Cardinal Fernández told about 100 ...

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And if at some time we come to the conclusion that in the past there was a female diaconate, why not reintroduce it as the permanent diaconate was reintroduced?” the cardinal reiterated.

This meeting was called at the initiative of the cardinal in response to some members being frustrated by his absence from a meeting scheduled for last week. “I’m not known in the Church for ...