For the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and for millions of other people as well, the Catholic Church's 2025 was primarily ...

The reversal of the merger of Holy Apostles Parish with St. James Roman Catholic Church comes as a surprise. That’s no slight toward the Save Holy Apostles Parish group who banded together quickly, ...

Vatican II is still an ongoing project as we all dig deeper into its treasures, hold ourselves accountable for any ...

Pope Leo’s updates to the Vatican labor code attempt to streamline a Curia under pressure, from pension woes to a dwindling ...

Discussions over women becoming deacons, who are ordained and can assist with services but cannot celebrate Mass, have ...

Is the Holy Spirit telling us that female exclusion from ordained ministry and church decision-making is no longer acceptable ...

A Vatican-appointed commission says current church teaching does not allow women to be ordained as Catholic deacons.

Rome — It's been called "holy smoke." And it's color coded. Black and white plumes puffed from canisters over the weekend as pyrotechnics expert Massimiliano De Sanctis tested the mechanism that will ...

But a papal commission examining the question said further study was required, and advised that women should be given other ...

Pope Leo's selection had spurred optimism that the Church's stance on female deacons might change. That was not to be the ...

In the evocative new documentary Nuns vs the Vatican, director Lorena Luciano sets out to illuminate the stories of silence, ...

An Evangelical theologian has questioned the theological coherence of a recent Vatican doctrinal note addressing the controversial Marian title “Co-redemptrix,” arguing that while the document slows ...