women can be priests, and priests can marry and have children. In 1977, M. Jeanne Sproat became the first woman in Massachusetts ordained to the priesthood by The Episcopal Church. She died in ...

Declining attendance at traditional activist churches may be one reason for weaker Black alliances with Democrats.

Anthony imagined that women would someday vote ... "But I'm not sure she would have imagined that there would have been an Episcopal priest or bishop (voting) in her memory." ...

Two churches, across the centuries. Generations after their birth in this nation first envisioned in Philadelphia, both ...

Pope Francis attends the closing Mass for the synod on Oct. 27, 2024, with the other delegates, including bishop, other clergy ... women to be ordained. Regarding the doctrinal authority of ...

The Trinity Parish priest Father Matt Marino was injured in ... police presence in the Downtown area while they searched for a female suspect, later identified as 22-year-old Arieana Gibbs.

What does this mean, exactly? In Steiner’s view, it allows for the possibility that some episcopal conferences might say yes to women deacons and married priests, based on cultural ...

As the Girl Scouts moved toward the clear, authentic inclusion of all girls, our church walked in parallel, removing barriers ...

Jones bought his freedom and eventually became ordained by the Christ Church rector as the first Black priest of the Episcopal Church ... or so free Black men and women living in the city at ...

At the beginning of his Oct. 23 address to journalists in Rome at the daily Synod on Synodality briefing, the cardinal said the question of the selection process for bishops in each episcopal ...