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 ...

A hopeless believer in dialogue, I regularly send messages to the Vatican and bishops to inform them of what the Women's Ordination Conference is up to. These messages are almost always met with ...

Oct. 25—When she comes up to the altar rail to receive a blessing during Communion while wearing her clerical vestments, the Rev. Anne Tropeano — known as "Father Anne" — receives a variety of looks ...

As 197 Catholic cardinals, patriarchs and priests entered the Vatican on Aug. 29 for a closed-door, two-day meeting on the church's governance, women's ordination advocates gathered outside to protest ...

(RNS) — In January, at an ecumenical prayer service in Warsaw for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a recently ordained Lutheran priest, the Rev. Wiktoria Matloch, was asked to leave the event ...

Fifty years ago, on June 3, 1972, as Sally J. Priesand became the first woman ordained a rabbi by a Jewish seminary, her 35 male classmates spontaneously rose to their feet to acknowledge her historic ...

NEW YORK — Churches may have been emptier than usual this past weekend due to fears related to the coronavirus — but according to a group of demonstrators in Manhattan, the Catholic Church’s ...

In recent years, many Buddhist nuns have taken on leadership roles that require either ordination status or academic degrees, all of which was quite unheard of in Buddhist monastic traditions in the ...

Streaming down the hallway from the Jewish Theological Seminary cafeteria Sunday night came an unusual sound: some 100 female voices, undisturbed by tenor or bass, joyously singing the blessing after ...

In the wake of an invalid ceremony on Saturday in which a French woman declared herself a Catholic priest, Kingston, Ontario Archbishop Anthony Meagher is warning 9 women who plan to make a similar ...

Casey Stanton, left, and the Rev. Mario Gomez, OFM, raise up the prayers people have written down at the culmination of a 3-night parish retreat at Immaculate Conception Parish in Durham, North ...

(The Conversation) — Rabbi Sally J. Priesand’s ordination by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion opened the doors to hundreds of women becoming rabbis. (The Conversation) — Fifty years ...