This happened in 1973 when the report concluding that women could be deacons was never published — shelved for “further study.” In 1992-97 the next report came to the same conclusion — women could be ...

In the book “The Faith of the Future”, a homily by the then Cardinal presents Saint Monica and her attitude toward her son ...

After 188 years of illustrious efforts worldwide, the PC(USA)’s foreign mission agency is disbanding, and the denomination will no longer dispatch a corps of career missionaries overseas, though it ...

COMMENTARY: As the Society of St. Pius X is again on the brink of schism, perhaps a more traditional approach from the Holy See would serve the universal Church — and the adherents of the SSPX — ...

Just days after four of Europe’s most senior bishops called on the continent to “rediscover its soul,” scholars gathered at the German Embassy to the Holy See on Feb. 17 to honor the man who spent his ...

Bishop Joseph Williams celebrates Mass on Feb. 15 at Stockton University in Galloway. Assisting at left is Deacon Richard Wigglesworth.

The first event set to pave the way for the centenary of theologian Joseph Ratzinger Benedict XVI's birth is an exhibition ...

A former altar boy, suing over alleged clergy sex abuse, says newly unsealed priest personnel files prove the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn is misleading the public about its prior knowledge of ...

John Allen, who has died of cancer aged 61, was the leading Vatican correspondent of his day, the editor of the American ...

The overall increase in belief after years of decline is "one of the biggest shifts we've experienced in American life" and ...

The Catholic Church’s teachings on ‘just war’ have guided leaders’ long history of opposing many military interventions.

Former Irish President Mary McAleese argues that infant baptism violates children’s human rights by imposing church membership without consent. Critics respond that parents possess religious freedom ...