The ordination of 23 new Legionaries of Christ priests took place in St. Paul Outside the Walls Basilica, one of the four ...

Brother Richard Withers has lived a life of solitary prayer and contemplation in the Philadelphia region for 24 years. On May ...

Peter Nho V. Nguyen’s journey from humble family roots to missionary work and on to St. Charles Borromeo Seminary will ...

and demanded that women be allowed to seek ordination. "We are saying to the cardinals, you cannot keep ignoring 50 percent ...

This was codified in Roman law ... to ordain men as individual priests. Christ never did that. Christians were a priestly people long before ordination of priests was introduced.

(THE CONVERSATION) Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States has been picked to be the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church; he will be known as Pope Leo XIV. Attention now turns to what vision ...

Despite historic gains under Pope Francis, women remain excluded from the Catholic Church's highest levels of decision-making.

There are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered “papabile.” That means they possess the ...

The 69-year-old chose the papal name Leo XIV, in honor of St. Leo, a fifth-century pontiff known for his devotion to the poor ...

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...

May 9, 2025 Leo XIV, the first pope from the United States, presided over his first Mass as leader of 1.4 billion Roman Catholics ... even weighing the ordination of married priests under limited ...