Is the Holy Spirit telling us that female exclusion from ordained ministry and church decision-making is no longer acceptable ...

Here are six insights I gained from our interviews into how churches can treat female ministers equally to male ministers.

But a papal commission examining the question said further study was required, and advised that women should be given other ...

Brandi Kellett long sensed she had a gift for leading ministry, but the church she calls home didn't fully affirm her ability to do that — at least until last month. "It was profound," Kellett said.

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WLOX) - Many groups and organizations worked to reconnect after the pandemic. Back Bay Church in Ocean Springs came together Saturday to refuel its spark with military families, ...

Discussions over women becoming deacons, who are ordained and can assist with services but cannot celebrate Mass, have ...

A Vatican-appointed commission says current church teaching does not allow women to be ordained as Catholic deacons.

Pope Francis shares a moment with a group of teenagers after his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Jan. 31, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The ...

The purely historical perspective does not allow us to arrive at any definitive certainty,” a Vatican report concluded. “In ...

The international Catholic news weekly The Tablet thought the appointment of the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury in the Anglican Church presented a ripe opportunity for the Catholic Church to ...

As Sr. Laura Vicuña Pereira Manso accompanies a group deep into the Amazon to protected territory belonging to the Karipuna people, thousands of butterflies dart in all directions like beautifully ...

Koinonia, planted by Christ Presbyterian Church and partly known for its presence in a majority Black neighborhood, has left the Presbyterian Church in America for the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.