This social space is only open on Wednesday evenings for now, though its organizers are brimming with ideas for its future. Nearby, close to the Sainte-Croix Church in Ixelles, an example of a ...

In the Paul VI Hall, they will be about one per table, engaging in discussions about the role of women, the power of bishops, and the decentralization of the church. While the exchanges aim to be ...

As a teenager, Carol Burns Smelley helped start a Southern Baptist Church in rural Craighead County ... she created a 48-acre non-denominational lake retreat for prayer, contemplation and learning.

detracts attention from the plight of women in the Catholic Church and society, said an Australian bishop, who is a member of the Synod of Bishops. When Catholics in the global North are ...

The Church has supported this initiative for the past several years, which helps women and families improve nutrition, health and hygiene practices — thereby increasing self-reliance. This year, the ...

Savannah Bishop Stephen Parkes highlighted the damage done by abortion and urged abortion-minded women to “go to any Catholic church” for help. “I am very disappointed in the ruling.

South African women and women religious have reached new levels of frustration with the church and Pope Francis himself. Theologian and spiritual director Annemarie Paulin-Campbell said Pope ...

Our withdrawal from church fed into other kinds of retreat. Looking back, this trajectory seems designed to produce a collective depression. Upon reflection, the most spiritually formative time in ...

They addressed issues including clergy abuse, the role of women ... the ideas, the expectations, the proposals — so as to discern together the voice of God speaking to the church," Francis ...

Pope Francis' big Catholic reform project has opened with widespread calls for women to take up more positions of responsibility in the church topping the agenda ROME -- Debate was leaning away ...

An appeals court has ruled that a multisite Evangelical church in Michigan cannot be exempt from paying taxes on a property meant to serve as a retreat and recreation space. Woodside Bible Church ...