Nearly 157 years since St. Mary’s Episcopal Church’s first worship service, they have ordained their first female priest in ...

1911: St. Joan's Alliance founded, works for women's suffrage and women's ordination. 1974: Eleven women ordained Episcopal priests ... urging him that all church ministries be open to women.

Tropeano can’t receive Communion because she was automatically excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church after being ... to change its policy on female ordination.

Although the next leader of the church, the Reverend Sam Mawhinney, is not in favour of female ordination, the church said it remains its "settled" policy. Since Dr Mawhinney outlined his personal ...

A meeting four years in the making said the ordination of women required ... N.C., that advocates for female deacons. In a push to make the church more inclusive, Pope Francis has appointed ...

Tropeano said it’s not a stunt — that she wants to shed light on the question of women’s ordination, spur conversation and ultimately reform the Church.

A lifelong Catholic from Santa Fe who now lives in Albuquerque, Benavidez said he views female ordination as part of "a more hopeful, generative vision for the church." Benevidez said his ...

Tropeano can't receive Communion because she was automatically excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church after being ordained as ... who are pushing the church to change its policy on female ...