Giving women confidence that they have support in navigating the roadblocks they see to leaving is just part of their recovery journey.

However, Tropeano is still fighting for the church to ordain women. That mission has kicked into overdrive with the creation of her campaign "God Says Now," designed to encourage participants at the ...

In a fight with such wafer-thin margins ... who have long complained that they are treated as second-class citizens in the church. Women are barred from the priesthood and the highest ministerial ...

The bishops, nuns and laypeople affirmed "there is no reason or impediment that should prevent women from carrying out leadership roles in the church," but the final document ruled out ordaining ...

Pope Francis' yearslong process to reform the Catholic Church closed Saturday with recommendations that fell short of giving women more equity as hoped but reflected the pope's aims for a church ...

READ: Pope Francis called out in Belgium over women’s role in Church But in a rare move ... the ordination of married men and the fight against the sexual abuse of children by clergy.

The final Synod assembly document, approved by Pope Francis, said women must be given all the opportunities that church law provides to act as leaders, but left the possibility of ordaining women ...

Tropeano can’t receive Communion because she was automatically excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church after being ... loosely affiliated movement of women who are pushing the church ...

VATICAN CITY — A years-long process to reform the Catholic Church closed Saturday with recommendations that fell short of hopes that women would be given more equity. Pope Francis said he would ...