A Roman Catholic priest serving in Downey has been arrested for alleged sexual misconduct with a minor. The Rev. Jaime Arriaga, who was ordained in June of last year, surrendered to law ...

"Reconstructing Catholicism" by the Rev. Trish Sullivan Vanni explains the independent Catholic movement that has birthed ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the death of Friedrich Myconius, the creation of the Catholic ...

COMMENTARY: Some crucial teachings of the Church have been called into question, even contradicted, by various aspects of the ...

The imposition of hands is rightly recognized by the Catholic ... by the priest who baptizes. But he can do so only with the "myron" consecrated by a bishop. 101 1291 A custom of the Roman Church ...

The Roman Catholic Church in Vietnam ... the Catholic Church in Vietnam continued to face restrictions on the training and ordination of priests and the naming of bishops. Especially for the Vatican ...

The novus ordo has undergone further revision since its introduction. We are now in the third typical edition of the Roman ...

discussed: "The Catholic Church ... to him by the offering of name-day wishes by the Cardinals and the Roman Curia, Paul VI announced that a pontifical study commission had been set up by ...

Before he became Pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger discussed the issue of married bishops in the 1990s during meetings of the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission exploring unity, before the ...

Father Paul Hedman first thought about becoming a military chaplain while in seminary prior to his priestly ordination in ...