Commentary: If there ever was a time for a demoralized Catholic to pack it up, head to the nearest Episcopal church and declare himself a refugee from religious malpractice, the most recent round ...

Why stop at female priests? Has it occurred to anyone that maybe, just maybe, it would be a good thing for the next pope to be a woman? And while it appears that New York’s own Timothy Cardinal ...

The Justice Department's lawsuit backed the Catholic leaders in a legal filing on Monday, arguing the law "unlawfully targets clergy and, specifically, Catholic priests" and "directly interferes with ...

Former Catholics continued to stay away, new Catholics barely showed up, and many traditional faithful became demoralized. The pope has seriously disappointed those who believe the Roman Catholic ...

ParisIf yesterday Pope Benedict XVI addressed the broader culture of both France and Europe, today he spoke directly to the French Catholic church – a church which, by all accounts, embodies the ...

Even as Pope Leo XIV’s profile as a humble champion of the disenfranchised takes shape, a looming question is how he will approach the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse crisis while leading a ...

Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage or lobby for ordaining women as priests. But he gently steered the Catholic Church in a more progressive direction while leading with compassion ...