The first week of the Synod on Synodality session is in the books, and if you’ve been following the media’s account of things, you’d be forgiven for thinking the event is primarily focused on ...

ROME — The Vatican has included a group that advocates for women's ordination on a website promoting a two-year consultation of rank-and-file Catholics, indicating that Pope Francis wants to hear from ...

The October 2023 Synod of Bishops should include the voices of women who have discerned a sincere call to the Catholic priesthood, said women's ordination advocate Kate McElwee in a recent guest ...

One-fifth of United Methodist Church (UMC) congregations in the United States have received approval to schism from the wider denomination. More than 6,000 congregations have separated from the ...

Sixth-century mosaic depicting holy women with offerings to the Virgin Mary in the Basilica of Saint Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, Italy. (Wikimedia Commons) This article is part of The Conversation ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In the first week of February, the Vatican department that oversees Catholic Church doctrine accepted written testimonies about women in the church whose experience conforms with ...

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the flagship rabbinical school of Reform Judaism, will allow students to pursue ordination remotely, the school announced Tuesday, part of a program ...

Each year, hundreds of thousands of people become ministers through the Universal Life Church, a non-denominational religious organization that ordains anyone who wants (for free) and advocates for ...

ROME — Pope Francis on Tuesday issued a major revision of Catholic Church laws regulating clerical sex abuse, fraud and the attempt to ordain women. It is known as an apostolic constitution with the ...