The Catholic Church must make it easier to remove priests who have abused those under the age of 18 while giving victims "access to the truth," a papal commission at the Vatican said Tuesday in ...

VATICAN CITY, Holy See (AFP) – The Catholic Church must make it easier to remove priests who have abused minors while giving victims “access to the truth”, a papal commission at the Vatican ...

Though not a new idea by any stretch of the imagination, the question of whether the Catholic Church could or would ever ordain women — either as deacons or as priests, bishops, or even pope — has ...

Marking the 250th anniversary of the popes entrusting confessions in St. Peter's Basilica to the Conventual Franciscans, the pope told the community of priests carrying out that ministry full time ...

Arriving on moviegoers’ screens this Friday, the new movie Conclave bills itself as a star-studded mystery-thriller centered on the selection of a new pope for the Catholic Church. The film ...

The expression, by the way, stems from an 1895 cartoon in which a young priest is having breakfast with his bishop and the bishop says: “I’m afraid you’ve got a bad egg there”. The nervous curate ...

Noting that his native India was once a "receiving country" that welcomed countless foreign missionaries, the Divine Word priest said it is now "one of the countries that sends the highest number of ...

VATICAN CITY — The number of Catholics and permanent deacons in the world rose in 2022, while the number of seminarians, priests, men and women in religious orders, and baptisms declined, according to ...

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The number of Catholics and permanent deacons in the world rose in 2022, while the number of seminarians, priests, men and women in religious orders, and baptisms declined ...

Australia has committed up to $600 million over a decade to bolster PNG's pitch to secure a team in the competition, with the NRL set to make a final decision in coming weeks. But the ABC revealed ...