"Yes, Pope Francis elevated and promoted a few women into roles of responsibility, but they are always lower in status and authority than a man," said Duignan. "Even the youngest priest in the ...

“Yes, Pope Francis elevated and promoted a few women into roles of responsibility, but they are always lower in status and authority than a man,” said Duignan. “Even the youngest priest in ...

Catholicism does not allow women to become priests - a principle confirmed by Pope John Paul II in 1994 when he said the church had "no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women".

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 ...

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 ...

But even those who have studied theology and church ministry are excluded from the priesthood, and only priests hold the most senior leadership roles. "Yes, Pope Francis elevated and promoted a few ...

Before becoming Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost presided over one of the most revolutionary reforms of Pope Francis’ ...

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 ...