“The deacon is a minister of evangelization, a permanent and ordained sign and witness of Christ’s ministry of service,” ...

3-7) showed, advocates of women's ordination say ... University's Center for Peace and Justice Education. Women deacons, she believes, could offer special solace to mothers separated from their ...

"Being ordained is not an ascent but a descent, whereby we make ourselves small, lower ourselves and divest ourselves," Pope Francis said in a message to 23 men from eight countries, including three ...