Pope Leo XIV ordered the release of the Summary of the Study Commission on the Female Diaconate last week, marking a new low ...

Is the Holy Spirit telling us that female exclusion from ordained ministry and church decision-making is no longer acceptable ...

I would like to tell you about the other Catholic church in town, Light of Christ, which is part of the Ecumenical Catholic ...

(RNS) — The Synod on Synodality is exploding ideas all over the church. Some on the extreme right hope for Tridentine Masses. Some on the far left hope for changes in teachings on sex and gender.

As the second anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic approaches, I recall (with the aid of Google Calendar) that my last work trip before the lockdown was in January 2020 to cover the lead-up to the ...

A website overseen by the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops at the Vatican has linked to a group campaigning for women’s ordination. In a post dated Jan. 15, the Synodresources.org website ...

In a new interview, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, suggested that the Church’s position on female priests is not set in stone and should be discussed further, at the same time warning of ...

This reporting of ordained female ministers highlights the importance for churches not just to acknowledge a woman’s call to ...

What constitutes women’s leadership in religious communities is open to many interpretations. In the U.S., more attention has been given to women’s ordination because of the highly public and visible ...

(The Conversation) — Southern Baptists are calling for an investigation into the ordination of three women. A scholar explains why this continues to be a fraught issue, even though 2,500 women have ...

Shortly after Pope Francis opposed the possibility of an ordained female diaconate, two German-speaking cardinals publicly have said that only men can be ordained to the priesthood. “Women cannot be ...