Pope Francis has said he is open to married men becoming priests to combat the Roman Catholic Church's shortage of clergy. In an interview with German newspaper Die Zeit, Pope Francis said the ...

More significantly, a small but sizable number of married Episcopal priests will now become married Catholic priests. As a married Catholic priest ordained in 1984 under a special provision set ...

“It’s very clear in the tradition of the East, no priest may marry, [but] married men may become priests. That’s an important distinction that one has always to be clear on,” Father ...

That means, he said, being more welcoming: Of divorced-and-remarried Catholics, of LGBTQ persons, and of others who have long felt excluded by the church. With too few diocesan priests ...

Gay men can now become Catholic priests – but only if they don’t have sex, a new Vatican guideline suggests. In a surprise U-turn, the Vatican has signalled that openly gay men can now train ...

In May, he found his calling as a newly ordained Roman Catholic priest. "I became a priest for the only reason anyone should ever become a priest, because I felt that's what God was asking of me ...

MAUMERE, Indonesia — Arnoldus Yansen thought for certain he was going to become a Catholic priest, just like his older brother, cousin and uncle. He attended St. Peter Major Seminary ...

Lococo and a few hundred other women have been ordained outside the official church structure, and because the Catholic Church forbids women from becoming priests, Lococo is excommunicated.