(RNS) — A report of a study group on women deacons is expected as soon as June, putting the spotlight on the issue of women’s roles in the church once more.

Pope Leo XIV made bold statements about women's roles in the Catholic church, insisting that "clericalizing women" would not resolve issues within the church and "might make a new problem" ...

Pope Leo’s Classmates Drew Ire of Church With Protest for Women “It was the most electric thing I have ever experienced inside the walls of a Catholic church,” one protester recalls.

Despite historic gains under Pope Francis, women remain excluded from the Catholic Church's highest levels of decision-making.

Those who've been advocating for women deacons in the Catholic Church are taking stock of the possibility under the papacy of Pope Leo XIV.

In 2019 I wrote a column about the Catholic Church’s failure in that it excludes women from key leadership positions, and particularly the institutional prohibition disallowing women to preach the ...

(RNS) — Anyone looking for a quick answer from Leo XIV — a canon lawyer, bishop, Vatican department head and White Sox fan — will have to wait.

Pope Leo XIV is seen as a centrist who shares his predecessor's progressive views on certain social issues. Here's what we know so far.

In recent decades, Popes Paul VI and John Paul II both promulgated solemn decrees reaffirming the church’s age old, unbroken teaching that women cannot be ordained to the priesthood. In ...

Equality for women Leo has been firm in his stance against the ordainment of women, falling in line with Francis’ opinion.

Only a handful of women allowed to wear white to Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration — here’s why everyone else must dress in black ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Like unpaid bills arriving for the inheritor of a house, reports will soon arrive on Pope Leo XIV’s desk offering possible steps to take on some of the most hot-button ...