The church depends on donations from nations whose better off have been educated on the baptismal equality of all persons.

Every church, practically and functionally, has to come down on a position. You’re either going to install women into the office of deacon—or not.

In fact, according to a copy of the draft obtained by the Register, there was no mention of the possibility of women deacons at all. The language’s last-minute insertion may be an indication of ...

The topic of women deacons has caused a good deal of controversy ... There are more than 450,000 catechists in Africa who ...

But on the question of whether women could be ordained as deacons, the church said the possibility “remains open” and required further meditation. Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg ...

Kasper has a history of backing the idea of giving women some of the responsibilities of deacons. At an assembly of German bishops in 2013, the cardinal presented the possibility of deaconesses ...