Elder Shayne M. Bowen, General Authority Seventy, speaks during the evening session of the 194th Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Saturday, April 6, 2024 ...

The Vatican announced new guidelines for gay men considering the priesthood on Friday, defining the most important goal for aspiring priests as “an orientation towards celibate life.” The guidelines ...

Four days after a top female church leader called Latter-day Saint women the most widely empowered of any faith tradition, waves of comments were still flooding in. By Thursday afternoon, more than 13 ...

Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church's doctrine that women are not able to receive holy orders. The pontiff discussed the impossibility of female ordination in a Spanish-language book published ...

In 1852, the second prophet-president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young, implemented a ban on people of African descent from holding the priesthood and accessing temple ...

VATICAN CITY — In the life of every Christian, but especially of priests, God's love and forgiveness are the greatest rewards, and any attempt to seek one's own glory plays into the hands of the devil ...

VATICAN CITY — A Midland-born seminarian with the Diocese of Saginaw will be ordained to the transitional diaconate during a ceremony at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City this week. Charles Warner ...

September 28, 2025, is World Priesthood Sunday, a day set aside each year to recognize Catholic priests. Bishop Anthony B. Taylor, leader of the Catholic Church in Arkansas, is marking a milestone of ...