Since the beginnings of Christianity, women have always been at the heart of the faith, in the shadows as well as in the light. They stood by Christ, they spoke, and supported the first Christian ...

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 ...

The Roman Catholic Church, to preserve a healthy future, must embrace the idea that women can be ordained as church leaders.

Latter-day Saint women have made strides on equity in the two years since female leaders were ordered off the stand in the ...

McShea has held research positions at Princeton University and the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany, ...

Czech phrases and Christmas scenes, wine glasses and red pickup trucks, rabbits, pigs and more can be found stitched onto tea ...

While women lead informal prayer groups and community outreach, and many have been formally ordained, they struggle to gain ...

Women have been leaving the Church at rising rates for more than a decade. For years, men were the primary defectors, but for ...

KWETHLUK, Alaska (AP) — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife ...

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 ...

With many hoping to smash the stained-glass ceiling, the Church of England voted over allowing women to serve as bishops on Nov.20. But the ceiling remains intact, as the vote failed to pass and the ...