Centuries ago, full ordination of nuns in the Mahayana tradition had faded into silence. But on the morning of November 20, the silence broke in the cool air of Tshalumaphey in Thimphu. Rows of newly ...

The Diocese of Jefferson City will soon have a new bishop. A Solemn Vespers service, in preparation for the ordination and installation of the Most Rev. Ralph Bernard O'Donnell, 56, as the fifth ...

The international Catholic news weekly The Tablet thought the appointment of the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury in the Anglican Church presented a ripe opportunity for the Catholic Church to ...

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles on Saturday, May 31, ordained eight new priests from across California, including a 56-year-old former finance consultant from Diamond Bar and a 40-year-old Vietnam ...

Pope Francis attended the episcopal ordination of Rome’s new auxiliary bishop and vicegerent at the Basilica of St. John Lateran Saturday afternoon. Monsignor Renato Tarantelli Baccari, 48, who was ...

The Vatican has closed the door for now on ordaining women deacons, but this does not diminish the leadership roles women can occupy within the Catholic Church. Instead, we are called to redefine the ...

The episcopal ordination of Monsignor George Jacob Koovakad, the archdiocesan priest who was recently appointed as a cardinal, was held on Sunday at St. Mary’s Metropolitan Church in Changanassery.

A meeting four years in the making said the ordination of women required further study, but it called for women to have more leadership roles, even in seminaries. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from ...

The first week of the Synod on Synodality session is in the books, and if you’ve been following the media’s account of things, you’d be forgiven for thinking the event is primarily focused on ...

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the flagship rabbinical school of Reform Judaism, will allow students to pursue ordination remotely, the school announced Tuesday, part of a program ...

In a new interview, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, suggested that the Church’s position on female priests is not set in stone and should be discussed further, at the same time warning of ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (RNS) — With a simple vote call and without debate, delegates to the General Conference removed the ban on the ordination of ‘self-avowed practicing homosexuals’ — a prohibition that ...