But a papal commission examining the question said further study was required, and advised that women should be given other ...

Clergy members across the Archdiocese of Baltimore abused hundreds of children and teenagers over the course of six decades, abetted by a church hierarchy that systematically failed to investigate and ...

Bishop Mark O'Connell will officially assume leadership of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, following a prayer service ...

The Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests — a breakaway group founded in 2002 — sent out an e-mail yesterday announcing that its bishops will ordain six new female clerics next month. (The howl ...

The Catholic Church denies that women have priestly vocations. But while Humbert mentions counterarguments of dissenting ...

Imagine that you are an organization that is obsessed with sex, and you have been for a long time, often in unhealthy ways. Now imagine that you are suddenly in a sex scandal on a global scale that ...