The Catholic Church is filled with female saints who accomplished incredible feats for the Church and serve as role models for women around the world. St. Teresa of Calcutta (photo: 1986 Túrelio (via ...

Rome, Italy – When Pope Francis was elected in 2013, he faced loud calls to expand the role of women within the Roman Catholic Church. To some extent, he delivered. Francis opened key meetings to ...

Recently I finally had the opportunity to see a live of production of Broadway’s Hamilton. Based upon Ron Chernow’s 2004 biography, the musical tells the story of both the titular founding father and ...

On the back wall of Dolores Mission Church in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles hangs a painting that depicts the assassination of the Salvadoran archbishop Oscar Romero. "I remember me as ...

It was exciting to learn that St. Peter’s Basilica recently hired two women to be part of the La Fabbrica di San Pietro, for the first time since the institution responsible for the conservation of ...

Jerome Bongiorno and Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno make no bones about it: their Catholic faith is very much a part of their mission as filmmakers. The married couple's latest project is a pair of ...

(RNS) — The Synod on Synodality disappointed many women’s hopes that it would recognize women’s essential role in the church. A women’s strike, they hope, will make their point. (RNS) — As Lent began ...

Tracy McEwan receives funding from the Australia-Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme (DAAD) and Australian Research Theology Foundation Inc. (ARTFinc). Kathleen McPhillips receives funding from ...

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 aims for a church that ...

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 ...