This reporting of ordained female ministers highlights the importance for churches not just to acknowledge a woman’s call to ...

Permit me to share reflections on the teachings of the Holy Roman Catholic Church to enlighten so many good-intentioned people inside and outside the church. Regarding the ordination of priests: "The ...

The group was split 5-5 on a statement that held Jesus' masculinity and that of all who receive holy orders "is not ...

(RNS) — At a church just outside Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Tuesday (Feb. 18), 33 ministers from the Christian Reformed Church in North America stood up to read aloud a declaration, officially ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) -- Officials in the Church of the Brethren will meet next month to review the case of a gay minister who could be in danger of being removed from the clergy. Matthew Smucker, 34, ...

Shepherd of the Prairie Lutheran Church in Huntley recently acknowledged a very special occasion at the church during its services on June 11. Senior Pastor Mark Boster acknowledged the extraordinary ...

A website overseen by the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops at the Vatican has linked to a group campaigning for women’s ordination. In a post dated Jan. 15, the Synodresources.org website ...

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- Leaders of the Reformed Church in America suspended a New Jersey minister Friday night, ruling that he violated the denomination's teachings by officiating at his lesbian daughter ...

Are you familiar with Amish ordinations? An ordination is a service where a new minister, deacon or bishop is ordained. We have several examples in the New Testament of ways they ordained a church ...