Scandinavia’s top Church leader hopes the role of women in the Church’s mission is a focal point at the upcoming synodal assembly on synodality — and, therefore, that the conversation isn’t bogged ...

The October 2023 Synod of Bishops should include the voices of women who have discerned a sincere call to the Catholic priesthood, said women's ordination advocate Kate McElwee in a recent guest ...

Father Travis Moger has been a Catholic priest for just nine months, and his journey to ordination was a unique one. A former Baptist pastor and Navy chaplain, he was ordained in May 2025 in the ...

Bishop David Waller received his episcopal ordination in Westminster Cathedral in London on June 22, the feast day of the English saints John Fisher and Thomas More. Bishop David Waller is the first ...

The first week of the Synod on Synodality session is in the books, and if you’ve been following the media’s account of things, you’d be forgiven for thinking the event is primarily focused on ...

PROSPECT HEIGHTS — THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE HAS SEVEN NEW PRIESTS, following an ordination Mass on Saturday, July 5 at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph. Diocesan Bishop Robert J. Brennan presided at ...

When her son Andrés, then 19, came home for a weekend visit after his first week living in the dormitory for first-year students at Loyola Marymount University visibly upset, Cecilia González-Andrieu ...

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 with an agenda topped by ...

Women religious pray the Stations of the Cross while visiting the National Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in Emmitsburg, Md., during the 2019 National Conference of Burmese-American Catholics. (Credit: ...

The Rev. Amy Bruner, RCWP, is with Des Moines Catholic Worker in Des Moines. The Rev. Mary Kay Kusner, RCWP, is with Full Circle Catholic Community in Iowa City. Bishop Martha Sherman of Washington, ...