Scott Pomfret shares his struggle to balance two disparate parts of his life in the chaotic memoir “Since My Last Confession,” (Arcade Publishing, $26). A happy, out-of-the-closet Boston lawyer who ...

Probably the most newsy -- and somewhat unexpected -- item in the final propositions of the Synod of Bishops on the Bible was a proposal to allow women to be installed officially in the ministry of ...

Highlighting the importance of the Bible in the life of faith and the role of lay women and men in sharing the Gospel, Pope Francis formally installed eight men and women in the ministry of lector and ...

Pope Francis issued a document, "Spiritus Domini" (The Spirit of the Lord) Jan. 11, changing canon law to allow both women and men to be installed formally or "admitted on a stable basis through the ...

ROME — Pope Francis' Jan. 23 installation of lay men and women in the ministries of lector and catechist is a continuation of the unfinished work of the Second Vatican Council, said Catholic ...

VATICAN CITY, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday for the first time conferred the lay Roman Catholic ministries of lector and catechist on women, roles that previously many had carried out ...