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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

He was a 24-year-old seminarian from a blue-collar family. She was an idealistic 19-year-old psychology student. He wanted to teach. She wanted to be a missionary. They hung out at the Rathskeller ...

On Tuesday, Pope Francis issued a casual reminder of that perspective when he told a Swedish reporter that the church’s ban on women priests is likely to last … forever. It was all peace ...

an organization that supports the ordination of women as Catholic priests. According to WOW, 180 women have been ordained in defiance of Vatican doctrine that only men can become priests. Many of them ...

In an interview published in America Magazine today, Pope Francis unequivocally stated that women cannot be ordained as priests but emphasized the important role they have to play in the life of ...

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 ...