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

As the papal conclave gets underway in Vatican City, Holy Cross Catholic Church pastor Father Noah Carter recalls his experience studying there as a seminarian during the 2013 election of Pope Francis ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

It came days after Vance — in discussing critiques of the Trump administration’s immigration policies — in a Fox News ...

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

“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 ...

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 ...

Mahony was also accused of mishandling the case of an abuser priest when he was Bishop of Stockton. For many years, Mahony was a prominent figure in the US church hierarchy and considered a strong ...

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 ...