VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A Vatican ruling that bars laypeople, including women, from preaching the homily at Mass is testing the limits of Pope Leo XIV’s early signals of openness to women’s leadership in ...

The problem in the church is exacerbated given women make up a majority of churchgoers while an all-male hierarchy controls decision making. Furthermore, Catholic teaching bars women from ordination ...

A woman holds a sign in support of women deacons in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Nov. 6, 2019. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) The final report of the recently concluded second session of the Synod on ...

(RNS) — Dissenting former evangelical Christian women are forging a path different from those who have left the church in the decades-long decline in institutional faith. (RNS) — Taylor Yoder, who ...

A file photo shows an extraordinary minister of the holy Eucharist distributing Communion during Mass. Credit: OSV News photo/CNS file, Gregory A. Shemitz ROME (OSV News) — The Vatican has published ...

(RNS) — A network of leading female scholars and experts looking for ways to promote women’s standing in the church says the key is to embrace femininity. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Women in key roles at ...

VATICAN CITY — A years-long process to reform the Catholic Church closed Saturday with recommendations that fell short of hopes that women would be given more equity. Pope Francis said he would not ...

On the back wall of Dolores Mission Church in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles hangs a painting that depicts the assassination of the Salvadoran archbishop Oscar Romero. "I remember me as ...

The ordination of women as deacons in the Catholic Church has long been a theological debate involving traditionalist, pro-diaconate feminist, and skeptical feminist positions. This debate inevitably ...