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 of 31 December 2020, the Catholic Church consisted of 2,903 dioceses or equivalent jurisdictions, each overseen by a bishop. The Pop is the Bishop of Rome who, in that role, has primacy among ...

Within the hierarchy of the Church, both bishops and priests around the world were boldly speaking out in favor of contraception and especially the Pill. The Church had convened a papal commission ...

In ancient Judaism priests were the link between God and humans. In this sense the priests acted as a special group who could access God on other people’s behalf. This idea developed and has led ...

Anne Tropeano is set to be ordained Saturday as a Catholic priest, then automatically excommunicated from the Church. Tropeano, a 47-year-old grants manager with the United Way of Central New ...