VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In the first week of February, the Vatican department that oversees Catholic Church doctrine accepted written testimonies about women in the church whose experience conforms ...

This is the first article in a series profiling the six men who will be ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of ...

Such titles do not entail sacred ordination — and do not bestow the full powers of a deacon, who, in most cases, can stand in for a priest. The global church is split on the question of ...