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

Catholicism provided greater certainty than the Church of England, which was considered a wishy-washy institution by many in ...

A high-level Vatican commission voted against allowing Catholic women to serve as deacons, maintaining the global Church's ...

Pope Leo XIV has met with members of Italy’s intelligence services and warned them not to use confidential information for ...

A high-level Vatican commission has voted against allowing Catholic women to serve as deacons, a decision that upholds the ...

Pope Leo XIV has criticized prison overcrowding during a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families.

Argument against female deacons includes wish to preserve ‘masculinity of Christ’ and of those who receive holy orders ...

The anniversary offers an opportunity to reflect not just on what the document says, but on the young papacy of Leo XIV.

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

In Rome, Silicon Valley executives looked for the sacred under frescoed ceilings. But in Rio’s kitchens, Seoul’s basements, ...

A commission chosen by the late Pope Francis to study the possibility of women becoming deacons in the Catholic Church has ...

Celebrating the feast of the Immaculate Conception as the Jubilee Year was ending, Pope Leo XIV prayed that "Jubilee hope" ...