The new pope opposed letting women serve as deacons but endorsed some of his predecessor’s moves to expand their involvement.

Phyliss Zagano, a Hofstra professor who was on a papal panel studying the issue, has high hopes that the next pontiff will ...

Pope Francis named Sister Nathalie Becquart the first woman with voting rights in the Synod of Bishops. Together with author ...

Pope Francis made clear his desire for women to take on more active roles in the ministry of the Church. In 2023, Prevost ...

Scaraffia cites, in her view, just two positive changes Pope Francis made for women: the promotion of Mary Magdalene to an apostle and the cancelling of a norm that considered abortion a "reserved ...

During his 12-year papacy, Pope Francis introduced significant changes to the Catholic Church, notably increasing the ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost is the first American pope in 2,000 years. What are his political views? Has he said anything about ...

When the conclave's cardinals finish casting their ballots under Michelangelo's frescoed ceilings of the Sistine Chapel, the ...

How Pope Leo XIV chooses to tackle critical topics from same-sex marriage to women in the church remains to be seen, but ...

The 69-year-old Chicago native, known for being reserved and private, brings a different style to the papacy compared to his ...

Wearing white vestments, Leo processed into the Sistine Chapel and blessed the cardinals as he approached the altar and ...

Barack Obama and Michelle Obama shared their reaction to "fellow Chicagoan" Robert Francis Prevost becoming Pope Leo XIV, the ...