Pope Leo XIV ordered the release of the Summary of the Study Commission on the Female Diaconate last week, marking a new low ...

It's Women's History Month and our "Black Church in Detroit" series examines the role of women in the Black church. We'll talk about their vital contributions to the church as well as the challenges ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis' yearslong process to reform the Catholic Church closed Saturday with recommendations that fell short of giving women more equity as hoped, but reflected the pope’s ...

If the church approaches women’s discernment with condescension instead of curiosity, it risks undermining the process of ...

For more than a decade, Ellie Hidalgo has been campaigning to expand the role of women in the Catholic Church. The Miami woman is co-director of a nonprofit, Discerning Deacons, which invites other ...

Advocates for women's ordination — to the diaconate, the priesthood or both — say they are hopeful about the upcoming synod in Rome, despite some high-profile opposition to the possibility of expanded ...

The Church Ladies don’t just play church ladies on TV—they’re church ladies in real life too. For instance, Renice Beavers—she goes by Nicey—is the cochair of the hospitality ministry at her place of ...

In a shift that has become much more noticeable in five of the last six years, men, especially among millennials and Generation X, have been outpacing women in church attendance. The trend spiked ...

The first autobiography in the English language was written by a Christian woman, Margery Kempe, who lived in the early 1400s. In the early Middle Ages, it was not uncommon for an abbess (the female ...

Liberty Bible Church: 824 North Calumet Ave. — Liberty Bible Church has Faithful Fitness for women on Mondays and Fridays. Faithful Fitness is an exercise class for women with two different classes ...