The January ceremony will honor DMX’s spiritual legacy at Foster Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church, an Underground Railroad ...

ROME — The Vatican has included a group that advocates for women's ordination on a website promoting a two-year consultation of rank-and-file Catholics, indicating that Pope Francis wants to hear from ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In the first week of February, the Vatican department that oversees Catholic Church doctrine accepted written testimonies about women in the church whose experience conforms with ...

1911: St. Joan's Alliance founded, works for women's suffrage and women's ordination. 1974: Eleven women ordained Episcopal priests. 1975: First Women's Ordination gathering in Detroit; Women’s ...

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 ...

The Priestly Ordination of Deacon James Chomithung Ezung was solemnly held on December 29, at Longsa Village Ground under ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A survey of the 2020 priestly ordination class was published by the U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference (USCCB) on Thursday, a slightly smaller class than in 2019. Sponsored by the ...

Sixth-century mosaic depicting holy women with offerings to the Virgin Mary in the Basilica of Saint Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, Italy. (Wikimedia Commons) This article is part of The Conversation ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Last month I travelled from Melbourne to New York and received my ordination as a rabbi. If I was a man this would be routine, as ...

Meanwhile, the shrinking PCUSA makes plans to recover its identity. One of the reasons that the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) left the Presbyterian Church in the United States 40 years ago was ...