Francis-aligned’ bishops are following the late pope’s lead in stirring debate where politics and pastoral issues meet.

The announcement followed the IRS’s decision to give churches a carve-out from nonprofit law and allow them to support ...

Washington state's legislation requiring priests to report child abuse disclosed in confession faces opposition from bishops ...

As of 31 December 2020, the Catholic Church consisted of 2,903 dioceses or equivalent jurisdictions, each overseen by a bishop. The Pop is the Bishop of Rome who, in that role, has primacy among ...

Thomas Hennen’s ministry in the Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, signaled he backs current Catholic Church teaching on LGBTQ+ ...

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has confirmed that the Catholic Church will not endorse political candidates ...

He feels that he has done something real to expose the problems in the diocese and in the Catholic church hierarchy,” said ...

Windsor's Barbara Billey is about to be ordained by the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests — a movement determined to shake up the church hierarchy.

A priest has described controversial House of Prayer leader Christina Gallagher as a “charlatan” and said the hierarchy of ...

The veteran head of one of Europe's largest Catholic news agencies has resigned in protest over proposed church media reforms ...

The Loretto Community traces its roots to the mid-1980s, when a businessman and permanent deacon from Salzburg, Austria, ...