As a priest of the Roman Catholic Church, he is sworn to celibacy. But when one month ago his son, 32, informed him he was a grandfather, tears of joy welled in his eyes. He reckons that breaking ...

After 22 years as a Catholic lay minister, "trying to do everything I was allowed to do and hoping that would fulfill my call," Shanon Sterringer found liberating grace in ordination and a new ...

Here is an extraordinary e-mail from a Roman Catholic priest who hopes to give some insider perspective on why Archbishop Myers of Newark may have assigned this sex offender priest to a ...

Pope Francis said people being blessed did not require "moral perfection" Pope Francis has allowed priests to bless same-sex couples, a significant advance for LGBT people in the Roman Catholic ...

Roman worship was divided into the public and the private. Families would honor their household spirits while Rome had colleges of official priests to ensure that its actions met with divine approval.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston ... The data shows the Catholic Church was losing priests even before the clergy sex abuse scandal erupted in the Boston archdiocese in 2002.

[Reuters] Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania sexually abused thousands of children over a 70-year period and silenced victims through “the weaponization of faith” and a systematic cover-up ...

But is the Buddhist religion, which prevails in China, much more foreign to our customs and our modes of thinking and believing than the Roman ... in the Catholic Church. The priests have chaplets ...

Andrew Wadsworth, a priest of the Archdiocese ... that the prayers of the Roman Missal are ancient in origin and have been handed down to us over the centuries by the Catholic Church under the ...

Based on a Robert Harris novel, the thriller "Conclave," starring Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci, re-creates the secret ...