The new LDS Church First Presidency, led by Dallin Oaks, gives its first interview — with fellow Latter-day Saint and former ...

African bishops’ reactions to the appointment of Sarah Mullally as the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury are mixed. On the ...

CNN's Isa Soares examines how the late pontiff helped crack the "stained glass ceiling" for women in the Catholic Church. - Clipped From Video During the Francis papacy, the role of women in the ...

It was exciting to learn that St. Peter’s Basilica recently hired two women to be part of the La Fabbrica di San Pietro, for the first time since the institution responsible for the conservation of ...

The Vatican has closed the door for now on ordaining women deacons, but this does not diminish the leadership roles women can occupy within the Catholic Church. Instead, we are called to redefine the ...

RNS — On Tuesday, the Vatican announced that work is beginning on a document regarding women in leadership roles in the Catholic Church. Longstanding demands by women to have a greater say in the ...

In a shift that has become much more noticeable in five of the last six years, men, especially among millennials and ...

A day after the Southern Baptist Convention expelled a Virginia church for affirming women in pastoral roles, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination voted down a resolution to add an amendment ...

ROME (AP) — Debate was leaning away from allowing women to take on ordained roles in the Catholic Church as the second phase of Pope Francis’ reform project opened Wednesday with an agenda topped by ...

VATICAN CITY — A years-long process to reform the Catholic Church closed Saturday with recommendations that fell short of hopes that women would be given more equity. Pope Francis said he would not ...

(RNS) — In a country where women are often victims of violence and marginalization, the pope was confronted with the same reality in the Catholic Church. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In Papua New Guinea, Pope ...

Pope Francis, in another step towards greater equality for women in the Roman Catholic Church, on Monday changed its law to formally codify their roles as altar servers, distributors of communion and ...