VATICAN CITY, Nov 19 (Reuters) - A leading German Catholic bishop on Saturday contested the Vatican's view that debates about women priests and homosexuality were closed, saying they will have to ...

Yesterday in St. Louis, two more women were ordained as Catholic priests. Yes, two more women. (And in a synagogue, no less.) Rose Marie Hudson, 67, and Elsie Hainz McGrath, 69, were ordained by ...

We wish to respond to the falsehoods and misrepresentations in Meg Ksander’s letter, “It’s time for Catholic Church to ordain women priests,” in the March 2, 2021, edition of The Post ...

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the ordination of 11 women as priests in the Episcopal Church, and the milestone is being cited by some commentators as the beginning of the decline of the ...

Francis was asked en route home Tuesday from Sweden, where the Lutheran church is headed by a woman, if the Catholic Church might ordain women priests. Francis said: “The last word was clear and ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican issued its most explicit decree so far against the ordination of women priests on Thursday, punishing them and the bishops who try to ordain them with ...

We, the undersigned Roman Catholics, draw your attention to and express our support for the billboard “Ordain Women Priests” which has appeared facing Interstate 690 on the west side of ...

The changes come as Francis remains under pressure to allow women to be deacons – ordained ministers who perform many of the same functions as priests, such as presiding at weddings, baptisms ...

But he also has said decisively that women cannot be ordained as priests, and despite having worked for years in Peru where women often lead church communities, seems noncommittal on whether women ...

The pope did not move forward on the polarising issue of women’s ordination, particularly as deacons or priests. In the Catholic Church, the role of a deacon involves certain religious functions ...