If the church approaches women’s discernment with condescension instead of curiosity, it risks undermining the process of ...

Bishop Ron Hicks from the Diocese of Joliet is in the running to replace Timothy Cardinal Dolan at the Archdiocese of New ...

The pontiff offers something rare: a pastor-leader urging the church to reclaim the dignity of every person — not as an ...

The Vatican said an estimated 6,000 people signed up to participate in the weekend pilgrimage, including representatives from ...

Pope Leo XIV has criticized prison overcrowding during a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families ...

A Vatican report on women deacons published last week said that women could not be admitted to the diaconate “understood as a ...

Enjoy the following excerpts of recent messages from Pope Leo XIV, courtesy of the November edition of the “Fully Present” ...

In fact, the Wikimedia Foundation announced Dec. 2 that "Deaths in 2025" -- an entry that includes Pope Francis -- was their ...

A newly released Vatican document on women deacons has sparked anger among Catholic reformers, revealing deep resistance to ...

At the time of his election in May and in the months immediately following, this correspondent expressed a cautious ...

It’s now generally accepted that for Catholics ‘the way of being Church in the future’, as Pope Francis described it and as ...

Thomas O'Loughlin argues synodality remains a buzzword unless it changes how the Church acts. He uses a Greek village story ...