SAINT-MARTIN-EN-VERCORS, France-- When a lowly Roman Catholic father rebels against the church hierarchy ... the debate provoked by the actions of a priest in France, with his remarkable step ...

Polish-American lawyer Raphael Lemkin, the man who coined the term "genocide," wrote a text titled Soviet Genocide in Ukraine ...

A psychologist priest once advised me to move away from ... The synodal process should include a layer of discussion exclusive to the hierarchy. The discussion should engage the ecclesial ...

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 ...

New U.S. immigration rules are also going to make it more difficult to employ foreign priests in the United States. The Catholic hierarchy has simply ignored the obvious solution to this problem ...

But his role in the Catholic hierarchy’s century-long campaign of organized crime against children made me hesitate. When I was 6, I was abused by a Catholic priest. He was a "good-time ...

Diocesan priests generally staff local parishes ... Orders also maintain a unique spiritual mission and have their own ...

“We have fewer than 1,000 priests, and this year only one man joined the seminary,” Borgoño said. “There’s a disconnect between what is happening in the hierarchy and the lay ...

I couldn’t submit to this political pressure from the hierarchy.” In the prayer he recited multiple times, the 45-year-old priest changed just one word, replacing “victory” with “peace ...

Congolese Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, who signed a unified statement by Catholic hierarchy of Africa and ... But it allowed priests to offer spontaneous, non-liturgical blessings to same-sex ...

A priest with the Order of St. Benedict ... “The question now is: What will the church hierarchy do to warn others about this child molesting cleric and urge others with information or ...

VATICAN CITY — In the greatest rebuke yet to Pope Francis, the Catholic bishops of Africa issued a unified statement Thursday refusing to follow his declaration allowing priests to offer ...