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

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As the Vatican unveils its crèches, Pope Leo XIV marks his first Christmas with a calmer tone and a ...

An Evangelical theologian has questioned the theological coherence of a recent Vatican doctrinal note addressing the ...

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

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

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

Before leaving for his first apostolic trip to Turkey and Lebanon in November, Pope Leo XIV issued reforms to the Vatican’s labor laws. Both recognize the rapid changes in the makeup of the Catholic ...

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

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

A Vatican report on women deacons published last week said that women could not be admitted to the diaconate “understood as a ...

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

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.