After more than five decades of looking at survey research, I am rarely surprised by the results when I look at a new poll. The recent Pew Research Center survey of Latin American Catholics, however, ...

"We're here with a very clear message for the Vatican, 'Don't kick the can down the road on women's ministries'". :: Pope Francis was hosting the Synod nearby, which has postponed action on the topic ...

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

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 ...

Hong Kong was decades ahead of Britain when it came to the ordination of women priests, even though that might seem unlikely ...

In major Latin American countries, Catholic support for ordaining women as priests has risen significantly in the last decade, while Pope Francis’ popularity has declined somewhat, according to a ...

Tina Thompson was ordained as Kansas’ first Roman Catholic Woman Priest on Nov. 1 at a Unity Church in Lawrence. LAWRENCE — Tina Thompson found a different way to be Catholic. She was ordained in ...

Six women were ordained in a secret ceremony on a river barge in Rome this month - Copyright AFP/File Mohammed ABED Six women were ordained in a secret ceremony on a ...

On a barge on Rome's River Tiber, a stone's throw from the Vatican, Loan Rocher was "ordained" in a secret ceremony in defiance of the Catholic Church's ban on women deacons and priests. Dressed in a ...