Pope Leo XIV ordered the release of the Summary of the Study Commission on the Female Diaconate last week, marking a new low ...

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

The red-covered Pontifical Yearbook — known in Italian as the “Annuario Pontificio” — is an important reference updated every ...

The Roman Catholic Church in New York and more than 1,300 accusers on Monday announced they have agreed to mediation to ...

Robert Siegel turns to John Allen, Vatican correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter, for an explanation of the Roman Catholic Church's structure. Allen is author of the forthcoming book ...

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 ...

Francis fashioned a profoundly reformist papacy, deeply divisive within the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis is silhouetted at the end of a private audience with the President of Equatorial Guinea ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Four deaf Wisconsin men were some of the first to seek justice after suffering childhood sexual abuse at the hands of a priest, and a new documentary about the Catholic Church's ...

At a glance, Spirit of Grace church in Beaverton might appear to be just one of many progressive Protestant churches, not unusual in the Pacific Northwest. Its website and featured introduction video ...