This comes after the Vatican released a new Vatican Synod document, which still does not allow women to be priests.

He noted that women can already lead parishes without priests as “catechists,” or religious teachers, a status formalized by Francis in 2021. Such titles do not entail sacred ordination ...

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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 ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis decided the question ... Addressing the synod Oct. 21, Cardinal Fernández said women instituted as catechists already can lead Catholic communities in the ...

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History was made on Nov. 5, when Francis, the first Jesuit pope, visited the Gregorian University, the oldest and largest ...