When her son Andrés, then 19, came home for a weekend visit after his first week living in the dormitory for first-year students at Loyola Marymount University visibly upset, Cecilia González-Andrieu ...

Pope Francis will on Wednesday open the Synod of Bishops, a key congress that will for the first time include women and laypeople to help chart the future of the Catholic Church. The 16th Ordinary ...

The two bodies also have the same aim of influencing their broader church structures: The ecclesial assembly will synthesize insights for global application within the Catholic Church while the ...

"This act constitutes a grave affront to the Christian faith and adds to other reported incidents of desecration of Christian ...

Until recently, Jennifer Kelly hasn’t spent much time considering whether she’d like to become a member of the Catholic clergy. As a woman, that option isn’t open to her. But lately, the 60-year-old ...

A Vatican assembly on the future of the Catholic Church on Saturday said that more should be done to help women overcome "obstacles" to taking a leadership roles within the Church. Since October 2, ...

In a homily in Prague’s St. Vitus Cathedral on Feb. 9, Cardinal Mario Grech noted that some have wrongly understood the synod as ‘a battle of the conservatives against the liberals.’ Four cardinals, ...

The Synod will be the first to include women - Copyright Tamaulipas Civil Protection/AFP Handout The Synod will be the first to include women - Copyright Tamaulipas ...