If the church approaches women’s discernment with condescension instead of curiosity, it risks undermining the process of ...

A recent workshop examining the influence of Marian devotion in Latin America focused on the role that this spirituality has ...

Pope Leo XIV ordered the release of the Summary of the Study Commission on the Female Diaconate last week, marking a new low ...

The pontiff offers something rare: a pastor-leader urging the church to reclaim the dignity of every person — not as an ...

Pope Leo’s updates to the Vatican labor code attempt to streamline a Curia under pressure, from pension woes to a dwindling ...

He also prayed that families find strength, young people find meaning and people of faith seek greater communion.

Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered one of the most important finds from Anatolia’s early Christian era: a fresco of a ...

A newly released Vatican document on women deacons has sparked anger among Catholic reformers, revealing deep resistance to ...

Is the Holy Spirit telling us that female exclusion from ordained ministry and church decision-making is no longer acceptable ...

Lebanon needed this embrace.” The words went out over a social media platform, made more poignant for the accompanying image ...

Pope Leo's selection had spurred optimism that the Church's stance on female deacons might change. That was not to be the ...

Two permanent deacons, who served as members of a recent commission that studied women in the diaconate, react to the ...