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

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

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 ...

USCCB Director of Public Affairs Chieko Noguchi released a statement to announce that the Church will not endorse political ...

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

Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for an everyman humility and outreach efforts to people of disparate backgrounds and faiths, has died at 88, the Vatican has ...

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

Mike Gogan (62), a copy writer from Dublin, also chose to distance himself from the Catholic Church “as a young man in 1986”, saying he has “not looked back” since.

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.

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