Former residents said Vision of Hope kept the women in line through peer pressure and shunning, labeling those who challenge ...

Church leaders in the Amazon, where priests are in short supply, raised the question at a 2019 synod, calling on the pope to “promote and confer ministries for men and women in an equitable ...

Whether the church’s ministry of discernment decides to open diaconal ordination to women or not, creating a kind of nonsacramental “fourth order” of deaconess is not the way to move forward.

Many Ugandans are still waiting for that transformative change to materialize across key sectors. Some had hoped it would ...

Those who've been advocating for women deacons in the Catholic Church are taking stock of the possibility under the papacy of ...

Church leaders in the Amazon, where priests are in short supply, raised the question at a 2019 synod, calling on the pope to “promote and confer ministries for men and women in an equitable ...

ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 15, 2024 / 11:49 am. Pope Francis has written the preface to the book “Women and Ministries in the Synodal Church,” authored by three theologians and two cardinals who ...

A Pew Research survey in February found 59% of U.S. Catholics say the Church should allow women to become ... to serve as she feels called and hopes a new pope will recognize her ministry.

Ahead of general conference, a new statue was unveiled \u2014 the first on the east side of Temple Square \u2014\u00a0depicting the five virgins who had their lamps filled with oil.

In 2023, Cardinal Anders Arborelius, the bishop of Stockholm, Sweden, said it was “important to see that there are other ways” for women to serve the Church “than ordained ministry”.