A priest once hailed for his “groundbreaking” services became the leader of a cult in the Church of England and sexually abused a “staggering” number of women, a court heard. Christopher Brain, who ...

A new pope is bringing new hope to some that the Roman Catholic Church could take a major step toward giving women more equality with men by allowing them to perform some of the same functions as ...

A community-based women's organization is assisting a Hoffman Estates church in its efforts to clothe the needy. Members of the local chapter P-LK of P.E.O. (Philanthropic Educational Organization) ...

Walking into Waukegan’s St. Paul’s Lutheran Church on the first Saturday of the month, people might think they are in a clothes store, with racks and tables of clothing and accessories for men, women ...

As someone who has studied the way women’s voices have been amplified and silenced in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, especially online, I found it fascinating that three different ...

A church Instagram post tapped into a long-running seam of discontent among some women, who have chafed at restrictions. By Ruth Graham On Sunday night, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ...

Christian leadership in the US has typically been seen as a male occupation. The right for women to be ordained and serve as faith leaders has been hard-won over decades, and in several major factions ...

"I am just at the edge of leaving the church," I have heard some Catholic women say. Perhaps they had too long anticipated the inclusion of women's leadership, gifts and ministries in the church.

Pope Francis' yearslong process to reform the Catholic Church closed Saturday with recommendations that fell short of giving women more equity as hoped but reflected the pope's aims for a church that ...

The international Catholic news weekly The Tablet thought the appointment of the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury in the Anglican Church presented a ripe opportunity for the Catholic Church to ...

At the third Women of the Church conference for Catholic women leaders, a morning prayer service began with a reading of the Gospel account of Mary of Magdala witnessing the resurrected Jesus outside ...