women’s ordination
Women Are Shaking Up the Vatican + Claire Giangravé
By Roxanne Stone — April 18, 2024
RNS's Vatican reporter gives us the inside scoop on the contentious conversations around women's ordination in the Catholic Church.
US Catholics more polarized than ever about still-popular Pope Francis, survey says
By Aleja Hertzler-McCain — April 12, 2024
(RNS) — The Republican and Republican-leaning favorability rating represents a decline, creating the largest partisan gap in approval of Francis since his papacy began.
A film sheds light on 11 daring women whose defiant act changed the Episcopal Church
By Yonat Shimron — November 24, 2023
(RNS) — ‘The Philadelphia Eleven’ depicts the buildup toward the so-called irregular ordination at which four bishops ordained 11 women as priests without the denomination’s approval.
At the Catholic Church’s worldwide synod, the deacons are missing
By Phyllis Zagano — July 21, 2023
(RNS) — Many if not most Catholics think women deacons are called for.
How male headship became core to SBC identity
By Katelyn Beaty — June 29, 2023
(The Beaty Beat) — The emergence of the pastor’s wife model.
Photo of first US ordained woman rabbi to be exhibited in National Portrait Gallery
By Yonat Shimron — June 23, 2023
(RNS) — Rabbi Sally Priesand, who is now 76 and retired, was ordained by Hebrew Union College in 1972.
Can ecumenism survive some Orthodox churches’ resistance to ordained women?
By Anna Piela — April 13, 2023
(RNS) — The issue of female ordination is threatening to define the future of ecumenism and Orthodoxy at large.
The Southern Baptist Convention’s coming ‘Great Ejection’
By Curtis W. Freeman — March 22, 2023
(RNS) — Will this summer’s SBC annual meeting make Christian history?
Frank Griswold, who led Episcopal Church through tumultuous times, dies at 85
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 6, 2023
(RNS) — Griswold led the mainline denomination through the ordination of its first openly gay bishop.
Synod officials caution bishops to put Catholics’ needs over their own agendas
By Junno Arocho Esteves — January 30, 2023
(RNS) — The warning seemed aimed at the German bishops' approach to the Synodal Path.
Ordination in Jerusalem belies slow progress for Christian women in the Middle East
By Daoud Kuttab — January 24, 2023
(RNS) — Religious affiliation regulates everything from inheritance to divorce.
The synod, the pope and the ordination of women
By Phyllis Zagano — December 14, 2022
(RNS) — Allowing women only in management and not in ministry ignores church history.
Buddhist leader in Bhutan fully ordains 144 women, resuming ancient tradition
By Haley Barker — June 21, 2022
(RNS) — Damcho Diana Finnegan, an American Tibetan Buddhist nun, called the ordination ceremony ‘a major step towards ending the institutionalized inequality between men and women in Tibetan Buddhism.’
Benedict woes come as German church reform pressure rises
By Geir Moulson — February 10, 2022
BERLIN (AP) — The recent Munich report has added to already strong pressure in Germany for the church to reconsider Catholic rules on issues including homosexuality and women’s roles.
In Hinduism, women create spaces for their own leadership
By Deepti Hajela — December 13, 2021
(AP) — Women in Hinduism globally lead by building communities, taking on positions in organizations and passing on knowledge.
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