The Church's opening to women initiated by Francis will be one of the challenges the next Pope will face. Hours before the ...

Today's influencers use social media, television and newspaper interviews, news conferences, open letters, and even puffs of pink smoke. Sign up here. The campaigns to sway the outcome of a highly ...

Members of Catholic women's group, Women's Ordination Conference, hold flares of pink smoke calling for gender equality in the Catholic Church and in protest of the male-only conclave, Rome, May 7 ...

In a park on a hill overlooking the dome of St Peter’s and the church’s Vatican headquarters, campaigners released pink smoke from flares, and demanded that women be allowed to seek ordination.

In a park on a hill overlooking the dome of St Peter's and the church's Vatican headquarters, campaigners released pink smoke from flares, and demanded that women be allowed to seek ordination.