For all three of these Catholic women, their concerns and fears are compounded by the news that a majority of their fellow Catholics supported the Trump ticket, a marked increase from the ...

Catholic deacons can preside over baptisms, weddings and funerals, but only priests can celebrate mass. Ordaining women deacons was a "fringe proposal pushed by Western progressives" before the ...

As a young sister teaching school, Joan Chittister one evening came across the small book, Women and the Church, by Sr. A.M. McGrath, a Dominican sister and a Ph.D. historian and chair at the time ...

(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) ROME (AP) — Debate was leaning away from allowing women to take on ordained roles in the Catholic Church as the second phase of Pope Francis’ reform project opened Wednesday ...