Unless the Catholic Church breaks its 2,000-year tradition of ordaining only men to the priesthood, Archbishop of Luxembourg ...

Bishop Johan Bonny expressed his plan to ordain married men into the priesthood by 2028 in a move that has not received ...

A Belgian Catholic bishop said he “will make every effort to ordain married men as priests” and expressed his commitment to doing so by 2028. In a pastoral letter published March 19, Bishop Johan ...

Campaigners for women priests and deacons in the Catholic Church extended their “warmest congratulations” to Dame Sarah ...

As the Vatican's Petrocchi Commission leaves the door ajar for women deacons, theologians and religious sisters debate ...

Georg Baetzing, Bishop of Limburg and Chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, speaks during a press conference. Arne Dedert/dpa Despite opposition from the Vatican, German Bishop Georg Bätzing ...

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 ...

A Catholic bishop in Belgium has announced his plans to ordain married men to the priesthood by 2028, despite the Roman ...

The Catholic Church won't be celebrating one Iowa City resident's ordination next month. In fact, neither the Diocese of Davenport nor the Vatican will even acknowledge Mary Kay Kusner's ordination ...

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 ...

Nicaragua’s government has prohibited the ordination of new Catholic priests and deacons in several dioceses, a move church ...