A report of a study group on women deacons is expected as soon as June, putting the spotlight on the issue of women’s roles ...

In the formal economy, women dominate sectors and jobs specifically tailored for them, which require nurturing, domestic, or ...

Father Mike Deeb, Former Permanent Delegate of the Dominican Order to the United Nations Deeb says there are those who disliked Pope Francis' stance on certain issues - including clericalism.

The cardinals had elected as pope a man who would change the style of being pope, attack clericalism, empower the laity, open the church to conversation and debate, and change the pastoral and ...

He did not have a great relationship with that Curia, which he addressed critically for the abuses, clericalism and careerism within, and which he excoriated publicly and without equivocation ...

He said, “We were trying to imagine a renewal of the Church, liberated from clericalism… But this imaginative task was made yet more difficult by the cultural context of the Vatican – it was ...

Can the ACP part company with a clericalism that exploited the vulnerability of those for whom clergy had a duty of care? Can it build a durable alliance with lay people who have had a surfeit of ...

We need to do some serious institutional scouring beforehand. The primary concern must remain the scourge of clericalism and how we practically and methodically establish structures that confirm ...

“Clericalism” is the attitude clerics discounting and suppressing the voices and contributions of laypeople. In Pope Francis’ 11 years in the papacy, “clericalism” has become an ...

A CULTURE of clericalism and “damaging theology” in the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has contributed to its “failure” to respond well to survivors of clerical abuse, researchers from the ...

I submit that the malignancy has a name: clericalism. In the context of the Catholic Church, clericalism refers to an attitude or mindset that excessively prioritizes the authority and privileges ...

Pope Francis denounced clericalism and called it a “scandal” to see young priests buying lace vestments at tailor shops in a strongly-worded speech to the Synod on Synodality on Wednesday.