On this week’s episode of “Jesuitical,” Ashley and Zac share a “conversation in the Spirit” with Linda Staudt, a lay delegate from Canada who was selected to participate in the 2023 and 2024 Synod of Bishops.

A new survey indicates that many Catholics in Latin America and the U.S. favor allowing women to become priests, with a number also supporting marriage for priests, birth control, same-sex marriage recognition and holy Communion for unmarried couples living together.

“If women are doing practically everything that a deacon is doing ... [why] do we want to draw women into clericalism when we are having so many problems with it?”

Ellie Hidalgo joins "Preach" host Ricardo da Silva, S.J., to explore St. Phoebe's diaconal ministry and its implications for ongoing debates around women's ordination to the diaconate.

Any decision requires some development in the church’s understanding of the tradition.

Women deacons have become the subject of a growing debate in the Catholic Church.