Approaching a book like Women of the Catholic Imagination allows readers a taste of the work of each novelist, to whet the ...

(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 ...

A month-long Vatican summit has ended with a call for women to have more leadership roles in the Catholic Church ... But it fits Pope Francis’ view that it is grassroots Catholics that should ...