Two groups of clergy challenged a Washington state law meant to help fight child abuse – but which could have required clergy ...

Chris Ponnet, who often served as the lone visitor to hundreds dying of COVID-19 and presided over an annual service honoring ...

A few years after Father Joe Krupp’s mother died in 2015, the priest got an idea: Why not have Dad move in? The four-bedroom rectory at Church of the Holy Family in Grand Blanc, Michigan, built in the ...

A Catholic priest from the Eastern Rite Syro-Malabar Church has announced his decision to resign from parish ministries, refusing to celebrate a liturgy, which requires him to face the altar in part.

The Synod of Bishops of the Syro-Malabar Church, the highest decision-making body of the India-based Eastern Catholic Church, has approved the resolution of a liturgy dispute that had troubled the ...

BRUNSWICK, Ohio -- Would it last? That was the question on the minds of a small group of people hoping to form a new church. It was January 1975 when three dozen families from Brunswick, Strongsville ...

A larger population base that draws many more worshippers led the Byzantine Catholic Outreach of Iowa to center the ministry in Des Moines, its first full-time priest told The Catholic Messenger.

VATICAN CITY, July 3 (Reuters) - A new rite published by the Vatican on Thursday will allow priests to celebrate a Mass to exhort Catholics to exercise care for the Earth, in the latest push by the ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV affirmed Wednesday that priests must be celibate and insisted that bishops take “firm and decisive” action to deal with sex abusers, as he gave marching orders Wednesday to ...

ROME (AP) — History's first American pope reaffirmed Wednesday that the primary role of bishops is to forge unity in his diocese among clergy and to be close to his flock in word and deed. ROME (AP) — ...