Vatican summit avoids discussing women clergy Church leaders, lay people from 110 nations taking part Pope Francis criticised over stances on women in society Summit expected to issue final ...

The question of women deacons, the document said, "remains open" and "discernment needs to continue". The Catholic Church has an all-male clergy and Pope John Paul II declared it had no authority ...

But advocates say Francis has taken the issue of women clergy off the table at the synod, by asking the Vatican's typically conservative doctrinal office to take over study of whether women can be ...

She compared the Church’s stance now to a decision by Pope Paul VI not to move forward on women clergy in the 1970s, despite a report then from the Vatican’s biblical commission that scripture ...

VATICAN CITY - A major Vatican summit of global Catholic leaders ended on Saturday with a call for women to be granted more leadership roles in the Church but stopped short of calling for women to be ...

As Vatican Summit Dodges Issue of Women Clergy, Pope Francis Takes Criticism By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Advocates for a greater role for women in the Catholic Church say Pope ...

Cardinals attend a mass concluding the Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops at St Peter's basilica in The Vatican, on Sunday. AFP A major Vatican summit of global Catholic leaders ...