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 ...
The Catholic Diocese of Spokane removed a priest from ministry and asked police to investigate after he was accused of misappropriation of funds and sexual misconduct involving six women. Catholic ...
Clerical celibacy is an issue that the ongoing final sessions of the Synod on Synodality should have discussed. However, the hierarchy continues to peripheralize it, despite its deleterious impacts on ...
Explore the argument that Catholic clerical celibacy is less about sex and more about a system of power. This piece examines ...
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 ...
Married life is spiritually suspect; priests, as religious leaders, should be spiritual athletes above reproach; therefore, priests shouldn't be married This approach to the question is, in my ...
The Catholic Diocese of Buffalo is currently grappling with a significant shortage of priests, a situation that is expected to become even more critical over the next 5 to 10 years. This shortage has ...
ROME -- 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 the ...
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A Brazilian cardinal recently named to head the Vatican department overseeing the world's Catholic priests on Monday played down a remark he made suggesting the Church might ...