Furthermore, Catholic teaching bars women from ordination to the priesthood, a decision that Francis has maintained, although ...

TOOWOOMBA Bishop Ken Howell has ordained three men, Sang Duc Bui, BJ Perrett and Sean Woods, to the transitional diaconate at ...

In other words: bishop, priest and deacon. What has been said above refers first and foremost to the Apostles and their successors, the bishops. Those men who receive episcopal ordination receive ...

Limited in her abilities to hold her own services, Tropeano's main focus in the years since her ordination has been on advocacy. Ultimately, her biggest desire is still to be a priest in the ...

The priesthood is deeply cherished and lies at the heart of ... “Our current vocational system is constructed more to discern impediments to ordination than the existence of a charism or aptitude for ...

However, priesthood goes back much farther, way before Exodus 32 and the ordination of the Levites to the service of Yahweh, and Aaron’s ordination as high priest. How much farther back?

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A yearslong process to reform the Catholic Church closes Saturday with recommendations that are expected ...

Opponents say it would signal the start of a slippery slope toward ordaining women to the all-male priesthood that Francis ... "is not ripe" for allowing the ordination of women as deacons.

which would seem to be a bad sign for supporters of allowing women into the priesthood. Tropeano, however, isn't giving up. Tropeano framed her belief in the importance of women's ordination in ...

When she comes up to the altar rail to receive a blessing during Communion while wearing her clerical vestments, the Rev. Anne Tropeano — known as “Father Anne” — receives a variety of ...