“I panni stesi nella fede quotidiana” (“Clothes Hanging Out to Dry in Daily Faith”) is a new documentary by Italian director Alberto Valletta. The film, which explores the intersection of queerness and…
Members of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference gathered this week for their Winter 2025 General Meeting. The President of the Conference is Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, and the Vice-President…
Link to article: Dr Zagano is Professor of Religion at Hofstra University in New York, the author of many books, and a specialist on the diaconate. She was appointed to…
11 Dec 2025 Association of Catholic Priests The Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) expresses deep disappointment at the Vatican’s December 4th decision once again rejecting the ordination of women as…
Sunday 15 Dec 2025 – ‘Stripped to the Core’ 3rd Sunday of Advent Year A 2025
Western People 2.12.2025 There has always been a pious image among very religious people that certain types of people are really cut out to be priests or nuns. For the…
I feel some sympathy for Donald Trump. He is deluded. He is like that neurotic grasshopper that I sometimes mention. He lives in a fantasy world. The word conjures up…
If Catholic clergy cannot explicitly deny that God the Father needed Jesus to die to restore his lost ‘Honour’ are they silently endorsing and embedding this medieval theology? When this…
An opportunity to assert the right of Catholic women to equality in the Catholic Church was thrown away by a misogynistic group of Vatican-appointed theologians by the publication of their…
The commission’s conclusion signifies a tragic lack of courage, synodality, and pastoral leadership, Catholic women say. By Virginia Saldanha Published: December 08, 2025 12:19 PM GMT Link to article: https://www.ucanews.com/news/women-pained-by-papal-commissions-no-to-womens-diaconate/111234?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=UCAN+Evng+Campaign08Dec2025_03&cmid=acfbf4ed-0015-4444-9575-b9ba2239d97b…
Phyllis Zagano View Author Profile Follow on Twitter at @phylliszagano Religion News Service View Author Profile Join the Conversation Send your thoughts to Letters to the Editor. Learn more Link to article: https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/vatican-document-women-deacons-opens-door-more-confusion…
Coming Events: Edmund Rice Centre, Callan – Approaching Christmas – What is Christianity? This seminar will be an exciting journey of uncovering the riches of the Christian Faith that has…
Press Release 5 December 2025: No Woman – No Church We Are Church International is very disappointed that the ordination of Women Deacons has been rejected though not definitively by a commission…
My initial reaction to the statement from the Vatican ruling out the possibility of women being eligible for the diaconate in the Catholic Church was one of great sadness. This…
Following meetings of the Advisory Committee, ACP Leadership Team and a discussion at the recent ACP AGM, it has been agreed to increase annual membership of the ACP to €50….
December 8th will mark sixty years since the formal end to Vatican II, described by the late Fr Gabriel Daly (an Augustinian, like the new pope) as ‘a massive surgical operation carried out without…
Petrocchi Commission says no to female diaconate, though judgment not definitive A report presenting the results of the Commission’s work has been released. It rules out admitting women to the…
‘Forerunners’ – 7 Dec 2025 – 2nd Sunday of Advent Year A 2025
REMINDER DIARMUID O’MURCHU Thursday 4th December 8pm London time Root & Branch are honoured to welcome Diarmuid O’Murchu to lead us through Reworking the Tradition:Implications for our Time Tradition is about…
Louis Stevenson Scottish author. The Treasure of Franchard (1883) (Noted from The Times). FOOTBALL AND A PLAYWRIGHT: It was the London Times that has prompted me. (December 1st 2025). Those…
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