the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful...

on the subject of women and their role in the church and in society. Views range from the full equal status and ordination of women to the priesthood...

Women-Church: An Australian journal of feminist studies in religion was an Australian journal published by the Women-Church Collective. It was established...

Women play significant roles in the life of the Catholic Church, although excluded from the Catholic hierarchy of bishops, priests, and deacons. In the...

Women and the Church (WATCH) is a group of women and men who have been campaigning for gender equality (and especially for the ordination of women as bishops)...

1017/S0009640722002815. Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. (September 2002). "Women, Gender, and Church History". Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture. 71 (3):...

Women in Church history have played a variety of roles in the life of Christianity—notably as contemplatives, health care givers, educationalists and...

Three Women in Church (German: Die drei Frauen in der Kirche) is an 1881 oil painting by the German realist painter Wilhelm Leibl which is in the collection...

some cases, women have been permitted to be ordained, but not to hold higher positions, such as (until July 2014) that of bishop in the Church of England...

20th century, the Catholic Church has been criticized for its teachings on sexuality, its doctrine against ordaining women, and its handling of sexual...