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 ...

A new pope will be selected to lead the Catholic Church following the death of Pope Francis. The pope is chosen during a ...

Roman Catholic Women Priests Canada also weighed in ... to move with the ‘signs of the times,” adding the all-male hierarchy “tragically supports the subjugation of women by ignoring ...

The priest who complained about “Stockholm Syndrome ... Last year, after he announced plans to educate seminarians outside the church hierarchy, the church charged him with schism and ...

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.” ...

“Everybody has their role and we are happy to stay at our place, which is not within the hierarchy of the Church,” she said, asking her surname to be withheld. “It [women as deacons or ...

There are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered “papabile,” or possessing the ...

He approved procedures to investigate bishops who abused or covered up for their pedophile priests, seeking to end the tradition of impunity for the hierarchy. Ivereigh, the papal biographer ...

Some among the church hierarchy might like to declare the crisis of sexual abuse by Catholic priests over. But abuse survivors and activists warn that practices and the mentality in local parishes ...

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 ...