Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An attempt at tightening constitutional limits on women’s authority in churches affiliated with an influential Presbyterian ...

(RNS) — During last month’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, debates about if women can serve as pastors dominated the business sessions and national news coverage. But at multiple Baptist ...

A new program to prepare women to preach in the Catholic Church has received a $1.25 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc., even as current church practice does not allow women to give the homily at ...

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The Second Vatican Council did not hesitate to emphasize the importance of preaching. Sometimes as Catholics we may downplay the role of good preaching. However, Ad Gentes, the conciliar document on ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Early on, Pope Leo XIV signaled support for women’s leadership in the Catholic Church, but a new Vatican decision released on Tuesday (June 23) barring laypeople, including women, ...

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Preachers can be tempted to ask themselves the wrong question when starting to prepare a homily. “The question is not ‘What do I want to say,” but ‘God, what do people need to hear?”, says Kayla ...