Is the Holy Spirit telling us that female exclusion from ordained ministry and church decision-making is no longer acceptable ...

Brandi Kellett long sensed she had a gift for leading ministry, but the church she calls home didn't fully affirm her ability to do that — at least until last month. "It was profound," Kellett said.

The women meet all the requirements except one: they're not men. As deacons, they could preach at Mass and preside over baptisms, weddings and funerals.

A commission set up by Pope Francis to study women deacons has voted against the possibility of ordaining women deacons while ...

Pope Francis has written the preface to the book “Women and Ministries in the Synodal Church,” authored by three theologians and two cardinals who participated in the meeting of the Council of ...

If the church approaches women’s discernment with condescension instead of curiosity, it risks undermining the process of ...

Debate on women’s participation in the Catholic Church — including the idea of whether women could one day be deacons — is not on the agenda for this month’s assembly of the Synod on Synodality, but ...

A Vatican report on women deacons published last week said that women could not be admitted to the diaconate “understood as a ...

Beth Allison Barr challenges the narrative that women have never exercised church authority. In 2021, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler reaffirmed his denomination’s stance ...

It's Women's History Month and our "Black Church in Detroit" series examines the role of women in the Black church. We'll talk about their vital contributions to the church as well as the challenges ...

Discussions over women becoming deacons, who are ordained and can assist with services but cannot celebrate Mass, have ...