Questions about the possibility of opening the diaconate to women were part of the conversation Feb. 21 at Rome's Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere.

These included "attitudes that are patronising and hostile to women's leadership" and "unrealistic expectations of clergy". What they found would not come as a surprise to women who have sought ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Members of the clergy would be required, by state law, to report potential cases of child abuse to authorities, under a proposal at the Washington state legislature. Currently ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he wants to root out "anti-Christian bias" in the U.S., announcing that he was forming a task force led by Attorney General Pam Bondi to ...

And Trump took a victory lap over his early administration efforts to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion programs and to limit transgender participation in women’s sports. “I don’t ...

(Photo: Mateusz Opila/Mateusz Pasikowski) Bishop David Tencer traveled to Rome with about 80 pilgrims from Iceland, a Nordic island country just a few degrees south of the Arctic Circle.

Livermore — The Islamic Center of Livermore (ICL) has been serving the Tri-Valley Muslim community since 1994, most of the time in a small mosque behind Mister Pickle’s Sandwich Shop.

Eric Matthew Copple pleaded guilty Tuesday to the bloody slayings of two 26-year-old women in Napa in 2004, and will spend the rest of his life in state prison. On Tuesday, Copple admitted to ...

Right on 8th and Mitchell is an abandoned building with a U.S. flag hanging on a pole on top. The U.S. flag is in horrible shape. Somebody needs to move in and take care of it. Shameful to see our ...

Two Democratic state lawmakers are trying again to require clergy members in Washington to report child abuse or neglect, including when it is disclosed to them by a congregant during confession ...