Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) WEST CHESTER – St. Agnes Church dedicated a new stained glass window Sunday to Pope John Paul II who ...

Pope Francis put another crack in the Catholic Church’s “stained glass ceiling” last week, announcing reforms that will allow women to head some Vatican offices. The Vatican is now free to ...

He has also made various documentaries about art and has been ... is also the title of Pope Francis’s much talked-about second encyclical on the environment. A stained-glass window measuring ...

The final destination, Bernini’s Altar, is illuminated by the Dove of the Holy Spirit stained ... of glass for many pontiffs and have had the opportunity to meet different popes. Pope Francis ...

The US-based Women's Ordination Conference, which advocates for women priests, has called the reform "a significant crack in the stained glass ceiling". "For years Vatican representatives and ...

Women will be allowed to vote at a key meeting for Catholics, the Synod of Bishops, for the first time in October after a decision by Pope Francis ... crack in the stained glass ceiling ...

Art, history ... Monstrances and walls are adorned with ornate stained glass windows, depicting important scenes in the Christian faith. Pope Francis attends a Mass in St Peter's Square in ...

Jessica Harvey used to worship in a church with stained glass and a soaring ceiling ... controversies in modern Catholicism. In 2021, Pope Francis restricted access to the old rite and required ...

Pope Francis broke one of the Vatican’s “stained-glass ceilings” on Monday, Jan. 6, by appointing a woman, Italian sister Simona Brambilla, M.C., as the prefect of a Vatican dicastery for ...