Women priests could celebrate Mass better than men because they are "more familiar with the shedding of blood", an Irish parish priest has said. Fr Roy Donovan said childbirth and menstruation ...

The first cohort of women became priests in 1994 at an historical service at Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire. "We had lots of ...

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 looks from ...

Meehan summed up the mood: "The hierarchy is afraid but the people are not afraid. "And they love women priests." ...

Since sharing her hopes of becoming a Catholic priest, she says she's experienced "breath-taking" online harassment. Tropeano is one of over 200 women across the world who are part of the Roman ...

and it's pretty firmly established that women should not be either bishops or priests. Many church fathers write about this. So that women tend to get excluded from those functions, [though] they ...

Speaking on Tuesday, the Pope confirmed that the ban on female priests will never be lifted. “St. Pope John Paul II had the last clear word on this and it stands.” The Pope was referring to ...

On a barge on Rome's River Tiber, a stone's throw from the Vatican, Loan Rocher was "ordained" in a secret ceremony in defiance of the Catholic Church's ban on women deacons and priests.

Tropeano can't receive Communion because she was automatically excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church after being ordained as a priest three ... movement of women who are pushing the ...

On a barge on Rome's River Tiber, a stone's throw from the Vatican, Loan Rocher was "ordained" in a secret ceremony in defiance of the Catholic Church's ban on women deacons and priests. Dressed in a ...