VATICAN CITY — The title of the document is a mouthful but the message is clear. The Vatican's new document is called: “Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with Regard to Persons ...

Traveling for Holy Week? Trying to find opportunities for confession and adoration? Or returning to Mass and yearning to reconnect with the Lord on Easter Sunday? Chances are your search will lead to ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Women meeting in Rome this week to promote female leadership in the Catholic Church are challenging the hierarchy’s resistance to change and its theological emphasis on ‘natural’ ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Advocacy groups for women forced to work at the Catholic Church's notorious Magdalene laundries in Ireland backed calls from the United Nations for religious orders to pay ...

When does a culture war become a holy war? When a religious denomination throw themselves full force into the battle. Recent developments within the Southern Baptist and Catholic denomination shows ...

The umbrella group of Catholic religious orders in France is demanding church authorities assume responsibility for horrific evidence of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse in L'Arche, once a ...

Next week begins the Week called Holy, with Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord on April 13 and concluding with Easter Sunday on April 20. Toward the end of Holy Week come three special days, known ...

Pope Francis has asked an Italian bishop, Msgr. Egidio Miragoli, 65, to carry out a visitation of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy, which has oversight of the more than 410,000 Catholic ...