Catholics suffer from widespread ignorance of important, historical precedents of both female and lay ecclesial leadership.

If women's roles are a concern in U.S. churches, said Elisa Belotti, 28, a Catholic in Brescia, in northern Italy, simply not showing up at church gatherings or Mass would be counterproductive in ...

What would the Catholic Church do without women? If some activists have their way, we're about to find out. A new project is urging women to strike by withholding time, labor and financial ...

Female Catholic leaders say changes initiated by Pope Francis must continue. As cardinals selected American Cardinal Robert Prevost to become the 267th pontiff-- Pope Leo XIV -- on Thursday ...

Rome, Italy – When Pope Francis was elected in 2013, he faced loud calls to expand the role of women within the Roman Catholic Church. To some extent, he delivered. Francis opened key meetings ...

Women deacons could also bolster the church’s presence in schools, hospitals and prisons, along with providing leaders for Catholic communities. Church leaders in the Amazon, where priests are ...

However, these changes barely scratched the surface of securing full equality for women in the Catholic Church. Pope Francis himself stated women still encountered obstacles, and opportunities for ...

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 ...

Across the United States, the issue of women clergy is currently a focal point in several Christians denominations, including the Catholic Church, where women are not allowed to be ordained.

(RNS) — As Lent began on Ash Wednesday (March 5), Catholic women frustrated over being disenfranchised by the church despite ...