In the wake of the Second Vatican Council, a wave of now-familiar but then-novel structures emerged: bishops' conferences, priests' councils, parish councils and diocesan pastoral councils. The ...

Tuesday, the Atlantic Wire covered the astonished reaction to the Vatican's announcement of a proposed amnesty of sorts for Anglicans. Pope Benedict XVI has decided that Anglicans wishing to rejoin ...

This insightful analysis explores the historical development and theological reasons behind the Catholic Church mandate on clerical celibacy despite no explicit command from Jesus.

To say that clerical celibacy can lead to sex abuse is “much too simplistic” because most abuse happens in the family, where the majority of the perpetrators are married men or other family members, a ...

Italian Archbishop Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s new secretary of state, discussed the Catholic understanding of priestly celibacy in an interview with the Venezuelan newspaper El Universal earlier ...

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Pope Leo XIV has issued a clear mandate to the world's Catholic hierarchy, affirming the necessity of priestly celibacy. Leo’s directives, which also included "firm and decisive" action from bishops ...

PELHAM, New York -- A shocking report out of Australia suggests ending mandatory celibacy for Catholic priests could help protect children from sexual abuse. The study claims tens of thousands of ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Monday its plan to allow married Anglican priests to convert to Catholicism does not signal any change to its age-old rule of celibacy for the overwhelming ...

At each of the four Masses in Eind hoven’s Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Dutch Bishop Willem Bekkers mounted the pulpit to tell the parish some startling news: two of their priests were resigning ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV affirmed Wednesday that priests must be celibate and insisted that bishops take “firm and decisive” action to deal with sex abusers, as he gave marching orders Wednesday to ...