With the conclave to select a new Pope beginning on May 7, many are wondering in what direction a new pope will take the Catholic Church. The role of women in the Church is a big issue, and there are ...

If his early moves are any indication, it seems Pope Leo XIV is intent on securing women’s places and voices of the Catholic ...

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

Nevertheless, the women who have worked closely with Prevost in recent years have praised his leadership style, ability to ...

It was the most electric thing I have ever experienced inside the walls of a Catholic church,” one protester recalls.

Jeanne Ory is shy by nature. So, a few weeks ago, when she heard her name announced at Mass at St. Joan of Arc Church in ...

I was thrilled to watch the announcement of Pope Leo XIV, an American, a Chicagoan, an Augustinian who took a vow of poverty ...

Pope Leo XIV has affirmed core Catholic teaching on marriage and the unborn in his first meeting with the ambassadors ...

no women priests, bishops, cardinals are allowed, and so mother church, as they like to call it, is not a mother, it’s a patriarchal, hierarchal institution that discriminates against women.

Ahead of his formal installation Mass this Sunday, Pope Leo XIV reaffirmed core Catholic teaching opposing same-sex marriage ...

In Ireland, a new study says attitudes towards the Church are “deeply divided” in the once deeply Catholic country.