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

Fr. Clive Dytor is one of many married ex-Anglican clergy who quit the Church of England in the wake of its 1992 decision to ...

The diocese now vigorously screens candidates for the priesthood and immediately removes any clergy member credibly accused ...

Three decades after the first ordinations of women to the Anglican priesthood, women are still struggling to gain and maintain strong footholds on the rungs of leadership.

NEWS FROM THE ISSUEOF MARCH 16, 2005 The Meeker County Board approved a moratorium of up to six months on shoreland residential development to give the Planning and Zoning Commission ...

An estimated 60 sexual assaults committed by priests ... were female and that 29 clergymen were involved in 67 sexual assaults. Further reading: Sexual abuse in the Catholic Church: the Italian ...

There are many pleasures for students of the Catholic Church in Conclave—which recently received eight Oscar nominations—from ...

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

Vice President JD Vance, the highest-ranking Catholic in government, inadvertently opened the Ark of the Covenant when he ...

In addition to the building of Dublin’s Whitefriar St. church, Our Lady of Mount St. Carmel, in 1826, Spratt also founded St ...

Joseph O’Connor’s novel celebrates forgotten heroes of the Second World War, and reminds us that we’re at our best when we ...

This is the final column submitted by Gerry O'Shea who passed away last month after a short illness. Over the course of many ...