Despite historic gains under Pope Francis, women remain excluded from the Catholic Church's highest levels of decision-making.

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 ...

as did Francis’ earlier inclusion of women as voting participants in the Synod on Synodality. Secular news outlets underscored its unprecedented nature. Within the Catholic Church ...

Before becoming Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost presided over one of the most revolutionary reforms of Pope Francis’ ...

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There are early signs that Pope Leo XIV is capitalizing on a moment of euphoria for Catholics and gaining traction within a ...

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

Pope Leo XIV has reaffirmed traditional Catholic views on marriage and dignity of the unborn, emphasizing peace, justice and ...

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.

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