On January 24, feminist theologian and activist Mary E. Hunt wrote here at RD about the relationships between the possible ordination of women in the Catholic Church and the recent Defense Department ...

Recently, the Roman Catholic Church decided, once again, to profess that women cannot be ordained. Ordination is when an individual is consecrated as deacon, priest or bishop in order to serve God and ...

Update: The Vatican has now issued the norms on dealing with priest sex abuse cases and other “more grave crimes” including “attempted sacred ordination of a woman.” They took great pains to ...

ROME (AP) — A second Vatican study commission has determined that women should not be ordained as deacons, dealing another setback to Catholic women who hope one day to be able to preside at weddings, ...

A second Vatican study commission has determined that women should not be ordained as deacons, dealing another setback to Catholic women who hope one day to be able to preside at weddings, baptisms ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Like unpaid bills arriving for the inheritor of a house, reports will soon arrive on Pope Leo XIII’s desk offering possible steps to take on some of the most hot-button issues ...

Yes, our new pope said something about women deacons. He said it is under study. Anyone looking for a quick answer from Pope Leo XIV, a canon lawyer, former diocesan bishop in Peru, former head of the ...

Bishop Sarah Mullally of London smiles as she gives an address inside Canterbury Cathedral in England Oct. 3, 2025, after ...

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 ...