A Georgetown panel considered "the question of women's ordination" April 17, describing the matter as "unfinished" despite Pope Francis' current teaching and St. John Paul II's 1994 teaching that Jesus Christ reserved the sacred priesthood to men alone even as the Lord
This week, Congress has begun deliberation on the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. Under the terms of this bill, only people designated female at birth may participate in federally funded women’s sports programs. In a new essay, Rachel Lu
U.S. bishops call on Catholics to support measure in Congress over transgender athletes in female sports
The U.S. bishops are calling on Catholics to contact their representatives and senators in Congress and urge them to vote for a bill that would protect women and girls' opportunities in sports by requiring federally funded female sports programs "to be reserved
‘New pro-life agenda’ sees wins in state battles to expand Medicaid coverage for new moms
The pro-life movement in post-Dobbs America requires robust support for health care and social service programs to accompany parents who choose life, some clergy, legislators and advocates told OSV News -- including efforts to expand Medicaid coverage for postpartum mothers.
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At the end of his general audience in St. Peter's Square March 8, International Women's Day, Pope Francis led a round of applause for women.
He thanked the world's women "for their commitment to building a more humane society" through their ability to
The world's religious traditions and their followers are called to offer wisdom to the world and to "infuse it with a spirit of warmth, healing and fraternity," which requires the participation of women as well as men, Pope Francis said.
"It is not
In August 2016 a commission was formed in order to look at questions that were raised with regard to women and the diaconate by the International Union of Superiors General, who asked Pope Francis about it in a May 2016 audience they
A society that does not give women the same rights and opportunities as men will become impoverished, Pope Francis said at the end of a four-day visit to Bahrain.
"Women are a gift," he said. After God made man, he didn't create "a
One of the church's leading experts on safeguarding and clerical sexual abuse has said the exclusion of women from seminary formation has had "extremely harmful consequences," and this "needs to change."
Jesuit Father Hans Zollner told more than 200 people at a "Stolen
After Ukrainian women were released in a prisoner swap with Russia, the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church said their stories "simply break the heart, make the blood run cold in your veins."
"This war will go down in history as one in