At the 50th anniversary celebration of the Women's Ordination Conference, attendees dared to celebrate the Catholic Church's ...

The cardinal, who has previously courted controversy on doctrinal matters, emphasized the need for ongoing discussion. Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, the relator general of the 16th Annual General ...

The first week of the Synod on Synodality session is in the books, and if you’ve been following the media’s account of things, you’d be forgiven for thinking the event is primarily focused on ...

The October 2023 Synod of Bishops should include the voices of women who have discerned a sincere call to the Catholic priesthood, said women's ordination advocate Kate McElwee in a recent guest ...

ROME (AP) — Debate was leaning away from allowing women to take on ordained roles in the Catholic Church as the second phase of Pope Francis’ reform project opened Wednesday with an agenda topped by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Christian leadership in the US has typically been seen as a male occupation. The right for women to be ordained and serve as faith ...

Oct. 25—When she comes up to the altar rail to receive a blessing during Communion while wearing her clerical vestments, the Rev. Anne Tropeano — known as "Father Anne" — receives a variety of looks ...

(RNS) — In January, at an ecumenical prayer service in Warsaw for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a recently ordained Lutheran priest, the Rev. Wiktoria Matloch, was asked to leave the event ...

Almost 40 years ago, while working in campus ministry at the University of Illinois, a young female colleague convinced me that women should be ordained to serve in the ministry. She was smart, ...

Bishop Anthony Randazzo of Broken Bay, Australia, made a shocking declaration in a press conference at the Synod. He stated that the topic of the ordination of women derives from an overly Western ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Advocates for the ordination of women to the priesthood flocked to Rome this week as the Vatican hosts a historic monthlong gathering of faithful to discuss the future of the ...

Pope Francis says women will be allowed to vote on a Vatican panel that had been exclusively male. NPR's Scott Simon asks Kate McElwee of the Women's Ordination Conference about it. Pope Francis is ...