As Christians, we can rejoice in our neighbors' newfound openness to faith because we have this strange belief about death ...

More young women are also attending church, according to the survey, increasing from 3% to 12%. Attendance is also up among older members of Gen Z, the Millennial generation, and those above 65 ...

This decision sparked disappointment, particularly among young Catholics and Christian feminist activists who had hoped for a bolder recognition of the role of women in church life. Yet the ...

The steady stream of young women joining religious orders stopped decades ago. That means the sisters who remain have little ...

“Trying to find representation of young women in the church is quite tricky ... her going on a night out and then leading a church service the next day. She recalled: “People were really ...

In contrast, she said, the Church’s social teaching has always emphasized women’s unique responsibility to care for young children, even while it has recognized the equal dignity of the sexes.

As a young sister teaching school, Joan Chittister one evening came across the small book, Women and the Church, by Sr. A.M. McGrath, a Dominican sister and a Ph.D. historian and chair at the time ...