An attempt at tightening constitutional limits on women’s authority in churches affiliated with an influential Presbyterian denomination narrowly failed over concerns about the effect on governance ...

ROME -- A second Vatican study commission has determined that women should not be ordained as deacons, dealing another ...

Cynthia Bowns has felt the calling to be a deacon since her husband went through the diaconate formation program a few years ago. Despite the Catholic Church’s rule that women cannot be ordained, ...

Yesterday I taught the presidency lesson in my ward’s Relief Society, devoting the whole lesson to our history. The Relief Society is going to turn 175 next week. So I devised a Jeopardy game to ...

(RNS) — During last month’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, debates about if women can serve as pastors dominated the business sessions and national news coverage. But at multiple Baptist ...

In celebration of the new book Catholic Women Preach: Raising Voices, Renewing the Church presented as a collection of homilies by women for the Lectionary Cycle A. Panelists discuss the preaching of ...

When one Southern Baptist pastor criticized Christian speaker and author Beth Moore for announcing she planned to preach from a pulpit on Sunday, on Mother’s Day, another pastor defended her. It led ...

The Donald Trump playbook is not bedside reading for Pope Francis. Even before the 2016 election, the pope and the candidate disagreed. But this is a moment for Francis to imitate two classic Trump ...

The opinion by the head of a commission charged with considering the question in effect states that the Catholic Church ...