Barr, already well-known for her 2020 book The Making of Biblical Womanhood, is herself a Baptist pastor’s wife. She agrees ...

With the election of Pope Leo XIV, the church and the world had to come to grips with an unexpected, new spiritual leader, ...

While reporting relatively low levels of attendance at Mass, almost half of US adults (47%) say they have a personal or ...

While there’s plenty of room for views to shift as Pope Leo’s agenda becomes clear, people are watching how the first ...

A recent poll reveals that American Catholics are largely optimistic about Pope Leo XIV, the first US-born pontiff. While ...

The book looks to fill a void in the popular understanding of the role of women, saints, martyrs and the laity, in protecting ...

Those who've been advocating for women deacons in the Catholic Church are taking stock of the possibility under the papacy of ...

the Roman Catholic Church doesn't recognize women as deacons, priests, bishops or cardinals. The newly elected Pontiff, Pope Leo XIV is seen for the first time from the Vatican balcony on May 8 ...

"Ordained priests will meet behind closed ... priestly ordination on women." However, women played crucial roles in Catholic history since the church's beginning. Walking through Rome, churches ...

said Wednesday the Catholic Church could have female priests in her grandchildren's ... were having when we were over there, the role of women in the church, attitudes to LGBTQ, issues that ...

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 ...

Phyllis Zagano was sitting in the dining hall at the Santa Marta residence at the Vatican when Pope Francis came up to her and other members of a commission he named to study the issue of ...