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Ministry highlights women altar servers at cathedral

When Cardinal Cupich first arrived in the Archdiocese of Chicago in 2014, he made a change that was immediately visible during services at Holy Name Cathedral: He instituted a ministry to recruit women altar servers.

Pope asks nations to repeal laws discriminating against women

Governments must eliminate laws discriminating against women and help guarantee women’s human rights, Pope Francis said.

Church and world must 'respect, defend, esteem' women, pope says

The world and the Catholic Church must respect and defend women and foster a motherly care for others to end dehumanizing cycles of violence, Pope Francis said.

Naming undersecretaries for synod, pope gives a woman a vote

Xaviere Missionary Sister Nathalie Becquart will not be the first woman undersecretary of a major Vatican office, but she will be the first woman with a right to vote at a meeting of the Synod of Bishops.

Women religious finding new ways to minister, collaborate

Loreto Sister Patricia Murray has a perfect view of the dome of St. Peter's Basilica from her office and, she said, almost every morning she thinks about how she got there.

Women must be at tables where church decisions are made

The Catholic Church is the largest global humanitarian network, with enormous potential, and therefore responsibility, to address human suffering and complex global challenges. It is also the vehicle through which the Catholic faith is transmitted to nearly 1.3 billion people.

Archdiocesan Women’s Committee responds to the issue of clericalism

We are blessed to have a number of lay commissions and councils, which I rely on to provide advice and support. I view their collaboration as key to the kind of shared governance needed today in the church. One of the groups I depend on is the Archdiocesan Women’s Committee. This advisory body represents women from all six vicariates, and meets with me throughout the year.

Lay women appointed to important Vatican congregation

A glass ceiling has been broken in the Holy See. On April 21, Pope Francis named the first female advisers to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the church’s central doctrinal body.

Looking at women in leadership throughout the global church

With the Me Too movement and the treatment of women making headlines and shaking U.S. culture, organizers of DePaul University’s annual World Catholicism Week chose the topic of women and leadership in the global church for this year’s conference held April 6-8 at the university’s Lincoln Park campus.

Collection helps religious who lived lives of service

The 57 members of the Sisters of the Living Word have a median age of 79, and 38 of them are retir...
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