The gender gap in American religion is getting smaller. On “Interesting Times,” Ryan Burge, a political scientist and former ...

Editor’s note: Opinion content is solely the opinion of that person and not the Daily Journal. For decades, one of the most consistent findings in religion research has been that women tend to be more ...

James Martin, S.J., addresses the 2025 assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in Atlanta on Aug. 14. Credit: LCWR Editors’ notes: James Martin, S.J., delivered the following speech ...

The recent Pew Religious Landscape contains both good and bad news for women’s religious participation. The good news is that women are still more religious than men and have not suddenly left ...

(The Conversation) — For decades, one of the most consistent findings in religion research has been that women tend to be more religious than men. This holds true across dozens of countries and on ...

PALMYRA, Pa. (AP) — It was a radical idea, and for many years she had been resistant. But as Zoey Stapleton, 24, walked down a darkened hiking trail, steps behind her parents, she counted back from ...

(The Conversation) — A court decision allowing Israeli women to take the Chief Rabbinate’s exams is the latest sign of growing recognition for women’s religious learning within Orthodox Judaism. (The ...

Pope Leo XIV spoke of the beatification this week of Mother Elisva Vakha’i, a 19th-century Indian religious and founder of the Third Order of the Teresian Discalced Carmelites, highlighting her ...

The president of the largest group of women and men religious in Latin America and the Caribbean expressed her support Nov. 24 for religious life in Nicaragua as it lives out its mission under ...

Sister Anne Arabome with other women religious at the Sophia Institute for Theological Studies and Spiritual Formation in Namibia. (Credit: Sophia Institute for Theological Studies and Spiritual ...