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

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.

If the church approaches women’s discernment with condescension instead of curiosity, it risks undermining the process of ...

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, ...

Vatican II is still an ongoing project as we all dig deeper into its treasures, hold ourselves accountable for any ...

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

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

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

Pope Leo’s updates to the Vatican labor code attempt to streamline a Curia under pressure, from pension woes to a dwindling ...

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

In 2018, German artist Michael Triegel asked a homeless man in Rome to pose for a drawing, thinking that he would make an ...