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 ...

Forty-six years ago this month, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, under then-President Spencer W. Kimball, lifted its prohibition preventing Black men from entering the all-male ...

Leo XIV did not meet with pilgrims, but he has indicated that he is supportive of an open, welcoming church. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome and Vatican City Hundreds of L.G.B.T.Q.

In 1833, a leading Latter-day Saint, William W. Phelps, published a column under the headline “Free People of Color,” making it clear that, since its founding three years earlier, The Church of Jesus ...

Thirty-five years after lifting a ban on blacks entering the priesthood, the Mormon church has offered an explanation for a practice that was in place for more than 100 years, saying it was rooted in ...

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 ...