Daryl Grigsby on the burning need for ordained female ministry to honor Christian tradition and enliven a stagnant, ...

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 ...

Interesting details include political affiliation, pastoral desires vs. parish life, synodality, loneliness and more.

COMMENTARY: Popes from John Paul II to Francis have made clear that the Church cannot ordain women — yet some persist in ...

ROME (AP) — Debate was leaning away from allowing women to take on ordained roles in the Catholic Church as the second phase of Pope Francis’ reform project opened Wednesday with an agenda topped by ...

(RNS) — The Synod on Synodality disappointed many women’s hopes that it would recognize women’s essential role in the church. A women’s strike, they hope, will make their point. (RNS) — As Lent began ...

The political and theological views of younger priests are out of sync with their peers and with the Catholic population.

(RNS) — The church depends on donations from nations whose better off have been educated on the baptismal equality of all persons. (RNS) — Winston Churchill famously said, “Those who forget history ...

Anne Tropeano decided she could no longer wait. Three years ago, inspired by her deep prayer and spiritual formation in the Ignatian tradition, she answered the call she'd been hearing for years to be ...

If you want some perspective on just how benighted the Roman Catholic Church looks today on the subject of women, consider Hildegard of Bingen. Hildegard was a German Benedictine nun in the 12th ...

As Lent began, Catholic women frustrated over being disenfranchised by the church despite promises of greater recognition are going on strike, withholding numerous services and ministries to their ...