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 ...

The Rt Rev Andrew Watson, who has died of cancer aged 64, was, from 2015, a popular Bishop of Guildford with an evangelical ...

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 ...

Queen Mary has attended a poignant church service marking the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

From a deadly attack in the middle of a Mass he was presiding over in Turkana to the killing of one of his young priests, Fr ...

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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Pope Leo XIV has appointed Mons. Assandé Darius Ekou who has been serving as rector of the parish-sanctuary Saint Famille de Nazareth to shepherd the Diocese of Agboville in Ivory Coast.

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.