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

Before leaving for his first apostolic trip to Turkey and Lebanon in November, Pope Leo XIV issued reforms to the Vatican’s labor laws. Both recognize the rapid changes in the makeup of the Catholic ...

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

As the church commemorates 60 years since the closing of Vatican II, here are seven key issues and documents that serve as ...

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

A Vatican report on women deacons published last week said that women could not be admitted to the diaconate “understood as a ...

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

The pope also said that Europe should be involved in security guarantees for Ukraine after meeting with Ukrainian President ...

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

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

Some Protestant scholars who spoke with CNA welcomed a Vatican document that clarified titles for the Blessed Virgin Mary that discouraged the use of Co-Redemptrix/Co-Redeemer and put limits on the ...

Indigenous leaders waited on the snowy tarmac at Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport Saturday as the precious cargo was unloaded from an Air Canada jet.