The pope’s words emphasized his humility and belief that simple acts of devotion could unite the church. His illness has made ...

Pope Francis is taking part in the Vatican’s spiritual retreat from a Rome hospital as he continues his recovery from double ...

As he did on Sunday, Francis participated in the retreat remotely from the Rome hospital where he is being treated. He could ...

WHILE many good and dedicated bishops and priests in the Philippines and elsewhere are examining their conscience about their ...

How Christianity blurred the line between celibacy and androgyny.

Ridsdale abused more than 70 children over three decades as a parish priest in Victoria’s west ... campaign for other members of the Catholic hierarchy to be held criminally responsible.

Converts and other Catholics took issue with the celebrity priest’s perceived dismissal ... Vance had cited the concept, which proposes an ordered hierarchy of one’s loves, as a justification ...

Father Jose Vailikodath, spokesman for the rebel priests’ group, also said that talks with the Church hierarchy could happen only if the current curia was removed. Meanwhile, the Catholic ...

He later set to work, which included a call to the Rev. Gabriel Romanelli, the Argentine priest who is the parish ... with the rest of the Holy See hierarchy. On Tuesday, the Vatican said the ...

Before Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the church in Wittenburg, Germany, before Gutenberg’s printing press ...

The Vatican announced Thursday in a general decree that it will excommunicate anyone who would attempt to ordain a woman as a priest and the woman herself. According to the decree, the ...

Gerald Ridsdale, Australia’s worst pedophile priest, is dead ... continues to campaign for other members of the Catholic hierarchy to be held criminally responsible. “The human damage caused ...