Tina Thompson was ordained as Kansas’ first Roman Catholic Woman Priest on Nov. 1 at a Unity Church in Lawrence. LAWRENCE — Tina Thompson found a different way to be Catholic. She was ordained in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week, Pope Leo XIV is scheduled to join an ecumenical prayer service in the Sistine Chapel with King Charles, the “Supreme Governor” of the Church of England. (The two are heads of state: the ...

In April 2026, we celebrate 50 years since the Pontifical Biblical Commission declared women could be ordained. The Pontifical Biblical Commission was founded by Pope Leo XIII in 1902 to ensure sound ...

About 51% of priests ordained in 2010 or later said their political views are either conservative or very conservative. There is also a generational divide on whether Eucharistic devotion or access to ...