CORPUS is disbanding, citing the advanced age of its membership and lack of new members. The reform group, an "national ...

Pope Francis made headlines recently by suggesting a new openness to married priests, but this married priest sees some potential problems with the idea.

But the Synodal Way’s push for married priests comes as part of a more radical proposal for the Roman Catholic Church.

The Catholic priest and his wife would be expected to live within that teaching. Do the parishioners who are so gung-ho about married priests really want to support the priest’s children?

Many married Catholic priests in the U.S. are former Episcopalians, but there is another path for married men to work as priests in the Catholic Church.

It is not quite right to say that married priests are coming to the Catholic Church — they have been here for quite some time. But recent decisions by Pope Francis mean that something new is ...

The priest shortage has been a major concern for the Catholic Church as today there is only one priest for every 1,800 Catholics in the U.S. But married priests may not provide the necessary ...

Pope Francis said he is open to the possibility of permitting married men to become priests to address the serious shortage of Catholic priests in some countries. The pope raised the idea in an ...

When the possibility of married priests is raised, it is normally in the context of solving a problem — how to get more priests or keep the ones already in place. Rarely is the possibility ...

After saying that married former Anglican priests could be ordained as Catholic priests, the ‘Apostolic Constitution’ stops short of adopting the Anglican practice of routinely ordaining men ...

Initially, he didn't even mention marriage. Pressed specifically about the married priesthood, the Pope said: "optional celibacy is discussed, above all where priests are needed. But optional ...