During the October 2024 synod assembly, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, Prefect for the Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith, announced that Pope Francis would reconvene the second commission he established in 2020 following the Amazon Synod to study the possibility of women deacons in the Catholic Church.
Join Discerning Deacons in prayer on February 3, 2025, in the midst of the commission’s reconvening. We will hear the testimonies of women with a call to serve as deacons, many of which will have been submitted for study to the commission, and pray together for our Church as we continue to discern about women deacons.