Part of the reason the question of women’s access to diaconal ministry remains open, of course, is that the church has never ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Very Rev. Godfrey Mullen, the Benedictine monk who has been serving as the “diocesan administrator” for the Belleville Diocese ...

Days before Fr. Amado Picardal died of a heart attack on May 29, 2024, the 69-year-old human rights champion had a rosy outlook for justice in the Philippines. He hoped the quarrel between the ...

Nechemiah ben Chushiel [d. 617] appears in Jewish apocalyptic literature, particularly Sefer Zerubbabel, as a leader connected to the Babylonian exilarchate who is destined to play a crucial role in ...

The unsparing analysis, rare for a Vatican document, came from a study group created as part of the Synod of Bishops on synodality tasked with examining women's participation in the life and ...

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Having deported four bishops for their criticism of the regime, the Nicaraguan dictator seeks to punish them further by not allowing any ordinations in their dioceses.

Nicaragua’s government has prohibited the ordination of new Catholic priests and deacons in several dioceses, a move church leaders say intensifies pressure on religious communities in the country.

The two are the only surviving members of their immediate family, but they look back fondly on their home life as the first stage in their discernment. Their parents, Joan and Ron, passed away in 2000 ...

Pope Leo XIV has named Father Godfrey Mullen, a Benedictine monk, as the new bishop of Belleville, Illinois. The Vatican announced the appointment of Bishop-designate Mullen March 13. The see of the ...