The announcement comes nearly a year after Robert Morris, the church's founding pastor, stepped down following allegations of sexual contact with a 12-year-old girl 40 years ago​.

With under 10 days before the 2025 legislative session ends, the Texas House held a rare Saturday session to advance key ...

Father Edward J. Bresnahan will be pastor of St. Leo the Great Church in Fairfax, effective June 26.

“I’m ecstatic,” said Alec Maddox, 32, a consultant who lives in San Diego, although he and his two brothers, Tommy, 30, and Jack, 28, admitted they didn’t know too much about the new Pope Leo XIV, ...

DALLAS - Millions ... leadership of the Catholic Church," wrote Gov. Greg Abbott in a statement. "It with great joy and deep gratitude to God I join my brother priests, deacons, religious, all ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States has been picked to be the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church; he will be ... of ordaining women as deacons, but he did not follow it through.

Update: American Cardinal Robert Prevost has been chosen as the new pope and took the name Leo XIV — the first pope in history from the United States. Pope Francis' death on April 21, the day ...

The recently ended Synod on Synodality, a three-year-long global consultation of Catholic faithful called by Pope Francis in 2021, raised hopes that the church might open the door for women to be ...

Monagle, who has represented survivors of Catholic sex abuse for 11 years, accused the church of violating the settlement agreement, which states that it will regularly update its list of priests.

The deacons’ cases were reported in 2023, but did not involve children from any church-related setting ... the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, meeting in Dallas, adopted a series of ...

In the fall of 2014, Ronnie Lastovica, a Catholic deacon, assisted in a Mass for the ... them to rent movies or call people on an approved list. Brittany Holberg, the former sex worker, who ...

In 2018 a list of more ... with the Catholic church on the sexual abuse scandal began in 2018, when an alleged victim came forward saying he was regularly abused by Deacon George Brignac from ...