Hosted by Catholic Charities of Philadelphia, the two-day retreat included a broad spectrum of activities for women served in the Housing and Homeless Services Division.

Sister Jane Falke celebrates 70 years as a Catholic nun in Kansas this week. She entered religious life when she was 15.

Plenty of Catholic women are eager to find ways to do it differently. “You would have institutional change” if women were to radically repopulate the ranks of church leadership, ...

Catholic women are seeking community, are worshipping and sharing their faith in new ways. While remaining Catholic, one woman I know now also participates in an Episcopal parish where she says ...

Being a Catholic woman is not about power but about love, self-sacrifice and friendship. These were the deeper hallmarks of Christ’s ministries, and they define authentically Christian life.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Women cannot be ordained in the Catholic Church, but many feel God is calling them to do more. advertisement. RNS. Five Catholic women who dream of ordination as deacons.

A youngKenyan woman, Lynne Princess has narrated her story joining the convent, going through the journey to the moment she ...

Organized by the Women’s Ordination Conference, a 50-year-old group based in Rome that advocates for women to be made priests, bishops and deacons, the Catholic Women Strike is planned to go ...

Years later, after learning about Roman Catholic women priests, Rue was ordained a deacon on the Danube river in 2004, and ordained a priest in 2005 on the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Few Catholic women say they look to the church for help in deciding how to vote, even while about half say Catholic teaching on key political issues is important to them.