Clerical celibacy is an issue that the ongoing final sessions of the Synod on Synodality should have discussed. However, the hierarchy continues to peripheralize it, despite its deleterious impacts on ...

Most women have no control over their lives and endure unequal relationships, even in the Church. (Photo: UCAN files) Kuravilangad is a small township within the larger district of Kottayam in central ...

At each of the four Masses in Eind hoven’s Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Dutch Bishop Willem Bekkers mounted the pulpit to tell the parish some startling news: two of their priests were resigning ...

CANBERRA, Australia -- An Australian inquiry into child abuse recommended Friday the Catholic Church lift its demand of celibacy from clergy and priests be prosecuted for failing to report evidence of ...

The Vatican Oct. 31 clarified the issue of married Anglican clergy within the new structures to be set out in the forthcoming apostolic constitution. In a lengthy statement, Vatican spokesman Father ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Monday its plan to allow married Anglican priests to convert to Catholicism does not signal any change to its age-old rule of celibacy for the overwhelming ...

The Catholic Diocese of Buffalo is currently grappling with a significant shortage of priests, a situation that is expected to become even more critical over the next 5 to 10 years.

NEW HAVEN -- While the church sex scandal exploding in Boston, Bridgeport and elsewhere has emerged as a Catholic problem, debate is hot as to whether sexual abuse is an outgrowth of a church that ...