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

Catholic conference SEEK 2026 breaks attendance records with over 26,000 young people across three cities, marking 24% growth ...

Pope Leo met on Thursday with the world's Catholic cardinals as part of a two-day summit, urging the senior clerics to shun ...

Beginning in 1987, Shaw spent a decade as director of information for the Knights of Columbus, an international Catholic ...

Pope Leo XIV ordered the release of the Summary of the Study Commission on the Female Diaconate last week, marking a new low point in Catholic theology. The second commission that convened on the ...

A half-century ago, Sister Evelyn Lamoureux applied to become a deacon in the Roman Catholic Church. She met all the requirements except one: she wasn’t a man. Today, she is still waiting to become a ...

Emma Kennedy is affiliated with the Center for Genetics and Society. According to Politico, anti-abortion groups lobbied against a requirement for employers to cover IVF. Instead, some vouched for ...

The site of the National Catholic Singles Conference was decorated with a mountain aesthetic. The chandelier in the lobby of the Broomfield, Colo., hotel was made of faux antlers, and behind the front ...

Perhaps someday, the Catholic Church will allow women to serve as deacons. But that time, a Vatican commission has decided, is not now. “In light of Sacred Scripture, Tradition, and ecclesiastical ...

VATICAN CITY — A high-level Vatican commission voted against allowing Catholic women to serve as deacons, maintaining the global Church’s practice of all-male clergy, according to a report given to ...

A second Vatican study commission has determined that women should not be ordained as deacons, dealing another setback to Catholic women who hope one day to be able to preside at weddings, baptisms ...

Panel of men and women debated appointment of women deacons Question has lingered for the past decade Deacons can baptize, witness marriages, but can't celebrate Mass Church reform groups criticize ...