This evidence suggests it could actually be a return to tradition to welcome women to the priesthood. The fact is that the church has changed its position on women and church roles in the past, such ...

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Q: The Anglican church is elevating its first woman to the role of archbishop of Canterbury, the chief diocese of the Church ...

VATICAN CITY — Before becoming Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost presided over one of the most revolutionary reforms of Pope Francis' pontificate by having women serve on the Vatican board that ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) | The Mormon Church issued a new essay Friday addressing the sensitive topic of women in the priesthood, clarifying that although women gave healing blessings in the early days ...

Pope Francis greets Sister Chantal Desmarais, a member of the Sisters of Charity of St. Mary and a synod delegate from Canada, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Oct. 4, 2024. (CNS ...

Catholic worshippers attend a New Year’s Eve Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City in 2016. (Artem Vorobiev/Getty Images) How we did this Pew Research Center conducted this survey to better ...

“It was the most electric thing I have ever experienced inside the walls of a Catholic church,” one protester recalls. “It was the most electric thing I have ever experienced inside the walls of a ...

As an academic specialising in gender and the church, the news that Bishop Sarah Mullally would be the next archbishop of Canterbury came as a pleasant shock to me. The announcement of a woman as ...