At the 50th anniversary celebration of the Women's Ordination Conference, attendees dared to celebrate the Catholic Church's ...

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 ...

The brainchild of WOC Executive Director Kate McElwee, the "Not if, But How — Reforming Institutions" panel gathered two ...

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 ...

At rectory dinner years ago, I mentioned to the five other priests around the table that I had just purchased the new “Inclusive Language Lectionary.” My pastor looked me straight in the eye and said, ...

Pope Leo XIV ordered the release of the Summary of the Study Commission on the Female Diaconate last week, marking a new low point in Catholic theology. The second commission that convened on the ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Mary Kay Kusner was a little shaken when she got the letter from Bishop Martin Amos of the Diocese of ...

A WOMEN S rights advocate group in Baguio urged the Baguio-Benguet Vicariate to implement necessary sanctions against a Catholic Church priest who was slapped with a four-month prison term for sexual ...