Boston College theology professor M. Shawn Copeland. (Credit: Boston College.) Listen ROME — The women of Africa need to claim their space in the field of theology. This was one of the conclusions as ...

Katie Cannon, 68, Dies; Lifted Black Women’s Perspective in Theology The Rev. Katie Cannon, the first black woman to be ordained in a leading branch of Presbyterianism and a groundbreaking scholar who ...

At Mount Holyoke College, the oldest of the Seven Sisters colleges, Danielle R. Holley was recently appointed as the school’s 20th president. At Boston University, Melissa Gilliam was recently ...

Politics and work play more of a leading role than acknowledged in a public discourse focused almost entirely on gender roles.

This week’s interim reports from the synod’s study groups, tasked with examining controversial issues that arose at the synod ...

All three awards presented during the Catholic Theological Society of America's virtual convention this year went to female theologians, including Susan K. Wood of Regis College at the University of ...

Women deacons have become the subject of a growing debate in the Catholic Church. During his papacy, Pope Francis has established two papal commissions and one synod study group to investigate the ...

This book—dedicated to Letty M. Russell and David C. White, with a foreword by Mary E. Hunt—is a “Cuba­catesen” of 19 marinated essays that Ofelia Miriam Ortega Suárez distilled between 1979 and 2021.

(RNS) – ‘Women have a way of reflecting on theology that is different from us men,’ Francis told the International Theological Commission. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Speaking to members of the International ...

Theologian, educator and author Candice Marie Benbow strives to give voice to Black women’s shared experiences of faith, healing and wholeness. In her debut book, Red Lip Theology For Church Girls Who ...

(RNS) — At Mount Holyoke College, the oldest of the Seven Sisters colleges, Danielle R. Holley was recently appointed as the school’s 20th president. At Boston University, Melissa Gilliam was recently ...