Georg Baetzing, Bishop of Limburg and Chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, speaks during a press conference. Arne Dedert/dpa Despite opposition from the Vatican, German Bishop Georg Bätzing ...

Scandinavia’s top Church leader hopes the role of women in the Church’s mission is a focal point at the upcoming synodal assembly on synodality — and, therefore, that the conversation isn’t bogged ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Anne Tropeano is set to be ordained Saturday as a Catholic priest, then automatically excommunicated from the ...

The October 2023 Synod of Bishops should include the voices of women who have discerned a sincere call to the Catholic priesthood, said women's ordination advocate Kate McElwee in a recent guest ...

University of Chicago Divinity School student Rebecca MacMaster entered seminary out of a desire to make the Catholic Church "the best it can be" and to answer a calling to teach and work in college ...

Oct. 25—When she comes up to the altar rail to receive a blessing during Communion while wearing her clerical vestments, the Rev. Anne Tropeano — known as "Father Anne" — receives a variety of looks ...

PROSPECT HEIGHTS — THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE HAS SEVEN NEW PRIESTS, following an ordination Mass on Saturday, July 5 at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph. Diocesan Bishop Robert J. Brennan presided at ...

Women religious pray the Stations of the Cross while visiting the National Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in Emmitsburg, Md., during the 2019 National Conference of Burmese-American Catholics. (Credit: ...

Oct. 16—Anne Tropeano is set to be ordained Saturday as a Catholic priest, then automatically excommunicated from the Church. Tropeano, a 47-year-old grants manager with the United Way of Central New ...