The reversal of the merger of Holy Apostles Parish with St. James Roman Catholic Church comes as a surprise. That’s no slight toward the Save Holy Apostles Parish group who banded together quickly, ...

For the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and for millions of other people as well, the Catholic Church's 2025 was primarily ...

As the church commemorates 60 years since the closing of Vatican II, here are seven key issues and documents that serve as ...

Discussions over women becoming deacons, who are ordained and can assist with services but cannot celebrate Mass, have ...

A Vatican-appointed commission says current church teaching does not allow women to be ordained as Catholic deacons.

Pope Leo's selection had spurred optimism that the Church's stance on female deacons might change. That was not to be the ...

Is the Holy Spirit telling us that female exclusion from ordained ministry and church decision-making is no longer acceptable ...

But a papal commission examining the question said further study was required, and advised that women should be given other ...

In the evocative new documentary Nuns vs the Vatican, director Lorena Luciano sets out to illuminate the stories of silence, ...

As the Vatican unveils its crèches, Pope Leo XIV marks his first Christmas with a calmer tone and a forceful call against ...

ROME -- A second Vatican study commission has determined that women should not be ordained as deacons, dealing another ...

Indigenous leaders waited on the snowy tarmac at Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport Saturday as the precious cargo was unloaded from an Air Canada jet.