Three decades after the first ordinations of women to the Anglican priesthood, women are still struggling to gain and ...

Ever wondered why you have never seen a female priest in a Catholic church? It is because they are literally not allowed to become one.

Pope Francis has said he wants to give women greater leadership roles in the Roman Catholic Church. If he really wants to make good on that vow, writes Rich Barlow, he should reconsider Catholicism’s ...

Other dioceses also moved rapidly; the Australian Anglican Church had 92 women priests by the end of 1992. Dr Rayner had first become engaged in the women’s-ordination debate ... was a new concern to ...

However, she also became a priest. They were ordained the first husband and wife couple in the region. While there were those vociferously opposed to female ordination, including a number of male ...

Barely a month later, in December that year, he presided over the first Melbourne ordinations of women priests. There were so many women waiting for ordination in Melbourne that three services ...

We have been reflecting on various issues, priesthood, religious life ... Many women were advocating for the female diaconate during that Synod. That was shut down. Were you really listening?

German Catholic women are making their voices heard again. This time, they are raising their voices to remind the Pope that appointing the first Prefect in the Curia is not enough, nor is ...

Long ago it should have been, but thank God,” said Thomas Groome, a senior professor of theology and religious education at Boston College who has long called for the ordination of women priests.

I witnessed the stirrings of that transformation starting in 1977 in Danbury where I covered the ordination of the Rev. Ann Coburn, Connecticut’s first woman Episcopal priest. Change wasn’t easy.