The women bishops call on Pope Leo XIV to lift excommunication against those ordained in the Roman Catholic Women Priests Movement and to dialogue with them. Women priests remind us that women are ...

A report of a study group on women deacons is expected as soon as June, putting the spotlight on the issue of women’s roles ...

Mary McAleese is right to call out Catholic Church over its exclusion of women from ordinationOpens in new window ] It may be that the sorrow of “the last priests in Ireland” has no real ...

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 ...

For Dianne Bergant, C.S.A., the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, Year C, is an opportunity to ground the doctrine in daily ...

In recent decades, Popes Paul VI and John Paul II both promulgated solemn decrees reaffirming the church’s age old, unbroken teaching that women cannot be ordained to the priesthood. In “Ordinatio ...

But she's not banking on that happening any time soon. "It will not happen in my lifetime," said De Froy, who is an ordained deacon with the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests (ARCWP). And ...

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 ...

no women priests, bishops, cardinals are allowed, and so mother church, as they like to call it, is not a mother, it’s a patriarchal, hierarchal institution that discriminates against women.

"It will not happen in my lifetime," said De Froy, who is an ordained deacon with the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests (ARCWP). And Teresa Hanlon, an ordained priest with the Roman ...

Regarding the article “Western Pa. Catholics anticipate papal conclave to usher in new era” (May 8, TribLive): It was not Pope Francis who “opened the way” for women and girls to serve as readers and ...