Following his ordination and installation, Biosca will oversee a diocese serving about 260,000 Catholics in Southwest Florida ...

Thousands of worshippers attended a ceremony in the Swiss Alps as part of the breakaway Society of Saint Pius X.

In the first week of February, the Vatican department that oversees Catholic Church doctrine accepted written testimonies about women in the church whose experience conforms with those called to be ...

More than a dozen Roman Catholic women in the U.S. who claim to have been ordained as priests during a ceremony on July 31 are now facing the threat of ex-communication and public condemnation.

Some 500 Catholic activists from around the globe will converge on Philadelphia for a three-day conference Sept. 18-20 to press for women's rights in the church. They will meet one week before Pope ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 16—Anne Tropeano is set to be ordained Saturday as a Catholic priest, then automatically excommunicated from the Church.

What inspired you to produce Ordination of Women to the Diaconate in the Eastern Churches? For many years, my academic research has centered on the restoration of women to the ordained diaconate in ...

A traditionalist Catholic splinter group has gone ahead with the ordination of four bishops without papal approval, in the ...

Women religious pray the Stations of the Cross while visiting the National Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in Emmitsburg, Md., during the 2019 National Conference of Burmese-American Catholics. (Credit: ...

The first week of the Synod on Synodality session is in the books, and if you’ve been following the media’s account of things, you’d be forgiven for thinking the event is primarily focused on ...

Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh Bishop Mark Eckman ordained five men to the priesthood during a Mass of Ordination on June 27 ...

The North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation voted in early June to encourage the “lifting of the restrictions regarding the ordination of married men to the priesthood in the Eastern ...