The new pope, Leo XIV, has this in common with many of his peers in the Catholic hierarchy: He’s been in positions of ...

Advocates for victims of sex abuse say there needs to be an accounting of how then-Cardinal Robert Prevost handled such cases ...

THERE WERE SEMINARIANS, THERE WERE PRIESTS, HE SAYS ... situation because I think it caught a lot of the cardinals and the hierarchy off guard,” Carter said. “They weren’t ready for it.” ...

In Peru, Pope Leo XIV is known as the saintly missionary who waded through mud after torrential rains flooded the region, ...

Notre Dame Provost John McGreevy said he expects some tension between the Vatican and the White House over immigration and ...

In February, Prevost shared a post on social media that pushed back at Vance's contention that Catholicism teaches a hierarchy of ... communities throughout his priesthood as a member of the ...

It's a crime, child abuse. What the priesthood is, what the Catholic Church is, is a hierarchy that is in many ways a brotherhood in which these men watch out for one another, as they would for a ...

and we seek to do that in a way that doesn't diminish the role of the hierarchy but elevates the role of the baptized. Taylor: In our lifetime, will we see a female become a priest in the Catholic ...

In Peru, he was a missionary, parish priest, teacher and bishop ... to expand the geographical diversity of the church’s hierarchy and named many new cardinals, some from countries that had ...

In that job he would have kept in regular contact with the Catholic hierarchy in the part of the ... community of Catholics — which can include priests, nuns, monks and even lay people ...

Cardinals are second in rank only to the pope in the Church’s hierarchy. After the pope ... as a forex dealer before he answered the call of priesthood. He was ordained as a priest in 1985 ...