VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Women meeting in Rome this week to promote female leadership in the Catholic Church are challenging the hierarchy’s resistance to change and its theological emphasis on ‘natural’ ...

Oct. 25—When she comes up to the altar rail to receive a blessing during Communion while wearing her clerical vestments, the Rev. Anne Tropeano — known as "Father Anne" — receives a variety of looks ...

The Catholic Church is filled with female saints who accomplished incredible feats for the Church and serve as role models for women around the world. St. Teresa of Calcutta (photo: 1986 Túrelio (via ...

(RNS) — A network of leading female scholars and experts looking for ways to promote women’s standing in the church says the key is to embrace femininity. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Women in key roles at ...

More than 5,000 people visited a photo exhibition at the Jeonju Shrine of South Korea that showcased portraits of 124 early Catholic martyrs beatified by Pope Francis in 2014. The Council of Lay ...

Lisa Ling explores a growing movement of women defying Catholic Church tradition by becoming priests. These leaders hope to pave the way for future generations, despite pushback from the Vatican.

In October, I traveled to Poland to interview director Anthony D’Ambrosio and the cast of "The Triumph of the Heart," a film chronicling the final weeks of St. Maximillian Kolbe's life in the ...

ROME (AP) — They don’t have a vote in the pope’s election, but nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders met in Rome on Monday to chart a course forward, a few miles from where ...

Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Wednesday the Catholic Church could have female priests in her grandchildren's lifetime. "Maybe my grandkids'," Pelosi told Politico’s Jonathan ...

Lent arrives each year as a season to focus on Christ, his suffering and his sacrifice. But for Pakistani Christians, it is also overshadowed by painful memories of violence, which has taken away many ...