Critics say that the Archdiocese of Santa Fe’s roster of “credibly accused” priests should be longer — by 59 names — but the ...

The Vatican decided to restore the ancient practice of permanent deacons after the Second Vatican Council in 1967 but ...

In a quiet corner of this Oxfordshire town, the small Catholic Church ... clergy who quit the Church of England in the wake of its 1992 decision to ordain women priests and other liberal changes ...

ROME (AP) — Another woman is taking over a top management job in the Vatican: Sister Raffaella Petrini, an Italian nun, was ...

Four people have sued the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, alleging that four priests sexually abused them when they were ...

Last week's guilty plea from a former Catholic priest who sexually abused children in Nunavut has prompted one of his earlier ...

A 40-year-old man ... a priest during a service Tuesday night at Our Lady of Lourdes Cathedral in downtown Spokane, according to the Spokane Police Department. Video from the church shows Joshua ...

Eric Dejaeger, 77, entered his guilty pleas in an Iqaluit courtroom Thursday morning before Justice Faiyaz Alibhai. Victims ...

Anthony Ianella alleges that he was about 10 years-old when the Rev. George Stark started sexually molesting him in the ...

German Catholic ... the Church stopped ordaining people to the diaconate as a permanent profession because the male diaconate had become an obstacle for ambitious priests. Women were definitively ...

(Photo: CNA/Syamil Sapari) In a statement, the Catholic Church in Singapore said the priest was "hit" by the 22-year-old man. "The priest has been attended to by medics, and apart from some ...