Rome, Italy – When Pope Francis was elected in 2013, he faced loud calls to expand the role of women within the Roman Catholic Church. To some extent, he delivered. Francis opened key meetings to ...

Women and girls are easy targets for religious persecution, and their plight is often compounded when shunned by their own ...

This past December, I suggested women in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints should stay home from church March 17 as a way to highlight the crucial, yet consistently undervalued, role we ...

For more than a decade, Ellie Hidalgo has been campaigning to expand the role of women in the Catholic Church. The Miami woman is co-director of a nonprofit, Discerning Deacons, which invites other ...

As Sarah Mullally becomes the first female Archbishop of Canterbury, her rise could influence the Vatican’s debate over women in ministry.

Pope Francis’ big gathering of Catholic bishops and laypeople said Saturday it was “urgent” to guarantee fuller participation of women in church governance positions and called for research on ...

It was exciting to learn that St. Peter’s Basilica recently hired two women to be part of the La Fabbrica di San Pietro, for the first time since the institution responsible for the conservation of ...

The discernment about women's participation in the church, particularly the discernment about restoring women to the diaconate, challenges even Pope Francis to follow the synodal process of listening ...

Seven priorities emerged from the Irish bishops’ Pre-Synodal Assembly meetings, drawing upon a series of gatherings held ...

Farmville Community Arts Center will top off Women’s History Month with “Crowns,” a gospel musical that puts church ladies in the spotlight. In the show, which opened Thursday at the Paramount Theater ...

*** day after Pope Francis made *** surprise trip to the Gelli Hospital in Rome. He was back in this time for surgery and the man who performed the operation said it all went well, the surgical ...