Sarah Mullally’s confirmation as the first female archbishop of Canterbury on Wednesday is a landmark in Christian and wider religious history, capping decades of change on women’s ordination and ...

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 ...

TOGETHER AS MALE AND FEMALE. IT WOULD BE A MUCH BETTER CHURCH, A MUCH BETTER WORLD IN NEW ORLEANS. NUN SAYS THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE LEADERSHIP ROLES FOR WOMEN WITHIN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. THIS ...

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 ...

(CNN) — A sense of urgency has been growing after the role of women emerged as a dominant theme when Catholics from across the globe were canvassed for their views ahead of a meeting of bishops and ...

Pope Francis' yearslong process to reform the Catholic Church closed Saturday with recommendations that fell short of giving women more equity as hoped but reflected the pope's aims for a church that ...

Pope Francis on Saturday approved the final document of his yearslong global synod, or dialogue among the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on the direction of the church. He took the unusual step of ...

As Lent began on Ash Wednesday (March 5), Catholic women frustrated over being disenfranchised by the church despite promises of greater recognition are going on strike, withholding numerous services ...

The U.S. feminist movement’s perpetual quest for gender equality has suffered notable setbacks during President Donald Trump’s second term — including the dismantling of various nondiscrimination ...