On March 10, 2026, the General Secretariat of the Synod published a report on “the participation of women in the life and ...

Godfrey Mullen, the Benedictine monk who has been serving as the “diocesan administrator” for the Belleville Diocese and as ...

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 ...

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 10-county Diocese of Lansing is moving priests at 10 parishes from Lansing and East Lansing to Brighton, Howell and elsewhere.

Lelia Charlotte Priestley, 64, passed away on January 17, 2026, in Alamogordo, New Mexico. She was born on December 11, 1961, in Las Cruces, New Mexico to Joseph and Charlotte (Kincheloe) Priestley.

Pope Leo XIV ordered the release of the Summary of the Study Commission on the Female Diaconate last week, marking a new low point in Catholic theology. The second commission that convened on the ...

A second Vatican study commission has determined that women should not be ordained as deacons, dealing another setback to Catholic women who hope one day to be able to preside at weddings, baptisms ...