For Fiennes, it is not Benitez who raises the question of women’s ordination, but Sister Agnes, played by Isabella Rossellini, who is the only female star in the film, reflecting the lack of wom ...

Furthermore, Catholic teaching bars women from ordination to the priesthood, a decision that Francis has maintained, although ...

The synod concluded without movement on the question of women deacons, but kept the issue open. That was frustrating to advocates but also has helped some remain hopeful.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A yearslong process to reform the Catholic Church closes Saturday with recommendations that are expected ...

That mission has kicked into overdrive with the creation of her campaign "God Says Now," designed to encourage participants at the ongoing Synod on Synodality in Rome to consider adding discussion of ...

At the World Synod in Rome, four women joined to advocate for ordaining women as deacons. Though the topic remains off the ...

Cardinal Walter Kasper, a respected German theologian and a longtime conservative voice at the Vatican, told a German church ...

A meeting four years in the making said the ordination of women required further study, but it called for women to have more leadership roles, even in seminaries. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting ...

I returned just a few days ago from the second session of the Synod on Synodality in Rome, and I will confess to feeling a tad exhausted. As I've mentioned before, the synod is a full four weeks l ...

"By virtue of Baptism, women and men have equal dignity as members of the People of God. However, women continue to encounter ...

Two women have been jailed for their part in a global monkey torture ring bringing the end to a historic "landmark case" that ...

Holly LeGresley, of Baldwin Road, Kidderminster and a second defendant, Adriana Orme, 55, were found to have assisted others ...