women’s ordination
Saddleback Church’s ordination of women pastors to be considered by SBC committee
By Adelle M. Banks — June 16, 2021
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) — ‘At the very least, I am asking that the validity of this matter be looked into,’ said a pastor at the Southern Baptists’ annual meeting.
Baptist and Catholic leaders grapple with similar problems in different ways
By Thomas Reese — June 16, 2021
(RNS) — They could not be more different, but they face similar problems, from sex abuse to Trump.
How women in the Southern Baptist Convention have fought for decades to be ordained
By Susan M. Shaw — June 3, 2021
(The Conversation) — Southern Baptists are calling for an investigation into the ordination of three women. A scholar explains why this continues to be a fraught issue, even though 2,500 women have been ordained to date.
The debate over women pastors is a Southern Baptist smoke screen
By Laura Levens — May 14, 2021
(RNS) — The fiery arguments distract from constructive conversations about entrenched racism, Christian nationalism and sexual abuse.
Top German Catholic bishop urges shift on women’s ordination, homosexuality
By Jack Jenkins — December 29, 2020
(RNS) — Limburg Bishop Georg Bätzing referred to ‘well-developed arguments in theology in favor of opening up the sacramental ministry to women as well.’
Episcopal Diocese of Chicago elects the Rev. Paula Clark, its first Black and first female bishop
By Emily McFarlan Miller — December 14, 2020
(RNS) — Clark, a native of Washington, D.C., is canon to the ordinary and chief of staff in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.
Adventists’ new North American leader hopes to leverage the denomination’s ‘strength of diversity’
By Adelle M. Banks — October 2, 2020
(RNS) — ‘We can't distance ourselves from it because it's a part of who our church is,’ G. Alexander Bryant said of Adventists facing racial tensions.
Pope Francis in the jungle
By Mark Silk — March 4, 2020
(RNS) — When it comes to the Amazon, he's got a plan for dealing with capitalism, but not for addressing the priest shortage.
Final synod document expected to mention female deacons
By Claire Giangravé — October 23, 2019
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As word spread that the final document of the Amazon synod will include recommendations about the ordination of women to the diaconate, bishops involved in the synod have taken a stand asking for more female participation and leadership in the Catholic Church.
‘A celebration for the whole church’: ELCA women reflect on 50 years of ordination
By Emily McFarlan Miller — August 16, 2019
MILWAUKEE (RNS) — The ELCA Churchwide Assembly kicked off a year of celebrations: 50 years of women's ordination, 40 years of women of color being ordained and 10 years of LGBTQ people serving freely in the mainline Lutheran denomination.
New video captures sexist comments to women ministers — read by male counterparts
By Yonat Shimron — June 20, 2019
(RNS) — 'I keep picturing you naked under your robe,' said one congregant to his female minister.
Catholic bishops end synod with controversy and compromise
By Thomas Reese — October 29, 2018
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The synod's report deals with a host of issues of concern to young people: treatment of women in society and in the church, the church’s attitude toward LGBT members, clerical sex abuse, warfare, poverty, migration, human trafficking and corruption. But the work must continue in local churches.
It’s good for girls to have clergywomen, study shows
By Jana Riess — July 17, 2018
What effect do clergywomen have on girls? A great one, it turns out: women who grew up with female clergy as role models do better psychologically and educationally than those who did not.
New research shows that women’s ordination boosts trust and commitment among some American worshippers
By Jana Riess — June 29, 2018
Women's ordination has an effect on women in the pews, a new national study finds. Congregations that give women the potential of gender equality in leadership can increase women's trust in, and commitment to, their religious communities.
Vatican seeks ‘courageous’ ideas to combat priest shortage
By Nicole Winfield — June 8, 2018
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The church appeared to open the door to making official some ministries that women in remote parts of Latin America already perform, including celebrating baptisms.
