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VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A Vatican ruling that bars laypeople, including women, from preaching the homily at Mass is testing the limits of Pope Leo XIV’s early signals of openness to women’s leadership in ...

Pope Francis greets Sister Chantal Desmarais, a member of the Sisters of Charity of St. Mary and a synod delegate from Canada, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Oct. 4, 2024. (CNS ...

A file photo shows an extraordinary minister of the holy Eucharist distributing Communion during Mass. Credit: OSV News photo/CNS file, Gregory A. Shemitz ROME (OSV News) — The Vatican has published ...

The ordination of women as deacons in the Catholic Church has long been a theological debate involving traditionalist, pro-diaconate feminist, and skeptical feminist positions. This debate inevitably ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Sarah Mullally becomes the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury in the church ...

As an academic specialising in gender and the church, the news that Bishop Sarah Mullally would be the next archbishop of Canterbury came as a pleasant shock to me. The announcement of a woman as ...