Unless the Catholic Church breaks its 2,000-year tradition of ordaining only men to the priesthood, Archbishop of Luxembourg ...

Scandinavia’s top Church leader hopes the role of women in the Church’s mission is a focal point at the upcoming synodal assembly on synodality — and, therefore, that the conversation isn’t bogged ...

Campaigners for women priests and deacons in the Catholic Church extended their “warmest congratulations” to Dame Sarah ...

Georg Baetzing, Bishop of Limburg and Chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, speaks during a press conference. Arne Dedert/dpa Despite opposition from the Vatican, German Bishop Georg Bätzing ...

A Belgian Catholic bishop said he “will make every effort to ordain married men as priests” and expressed his commitment to doing so by 2028. In a pastoral letter published March 19, Bishop Johan ...

As the Vatican's Petrocchi Commission leaves the door ajar for women deacons, theologians and religious sisters debate ...

The Catholic Church won't be celebrating one Iowa City resident's ordination next month. In fact, neither the Diocese of Davenport nor the Vatican will even acknowledge Mary Kay Kusner's ordination ...

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 ...

PROSPECT HEIGHTS — THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE HAS SEVEN NEW PRIESTS, following an ordination Mass on Saturday, July 5 at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph. Diocesan Bishop Robert J. Brennan presided at ...