Despite historic gains under Pope Francis, women remain excluded from the Catholic Church's highest levels of decision-making.

Catholics suffer from widespread ignorance of important, historical precedents of both female and lay ecclesial leadership.

During the Francis papacy, the role of women in the church emerged as a pressing priority, with Catholics across the globe calling for change.

Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Wednesday the Catholic Church could have female priests in her grandchildren's lifetime. "Maybe my grandkids'," Pelosi told Politico’s ...

Francis' "no" to women's ordination is not just the exclusion of women from a Church role. It is an insupportable and blatant ...

As the world mourns Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday, age 88—a symbolic end following the Church ... women in politics, business, and academia. His feminism may have been framed in ...