Catholic voters were a crucial part of Donald J. Trump’s re-election as president. But did misogyny and a resistance to women ...

This comes after the Vatican released a new Vatican Synod document, which still does not allow women to be priests.

By denying transgender people opportunities to use the restroom, attend overnight activities and serve with youth or children ...

The final Synod assembly document, approved by Pope Francis, said women must be given all the opportunities that church law ...

A month-long Vatican summit has ended with a call for women to have more leadership roles in the Catholic Church, but not a call for women to be ordained as priests, as some progressives had hoped ...

In its final text, the synod did not move forward on that possibility, but said "there is no reason or impediment that should prevent women from carrying out leadership roles in the Church".

VATICAN CITY - A major Vatican summit of global Catholic leaders ended on Oct 26 with a call for women to be granted more leadership roles in the Church but stopped short of calling for women to ...

The bishops, nuns and laypeople affirmed "there is no reason or impediment that should prevent women from carrying out leadership roles in the church," but the final document ruled out ordaining ...

The Southern Baptist Convention rejected a proposal in June that sought to enshrine a ban on women pastors. But at the local level, conflict persists.

Cardinals attend a mass concluding the Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops at St Peter's basilica in The Vatican, on Sunday. AFP A major Vatican summit of global Catholic leaders ...

VATICAN CITY — A Vatican assembly on the future of the Catholic Church on Saturday said that more should be done to help ...