As the Vatican unveils its crèches, Pope Leo XIV marks his first Christmas with a calmer tone and a forceful call against ...

For the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and for millions of other people as well, the Catholic Church's 2025 was primarily ...

A Vatican-appointed commission says current church teaching does not allow women to be ordained as Catholic deacons.

Discussions over women becoming deacons, who are ordained and can assist with services but cannot celebrate Mass, have ...

Is the Holy Spirit telling us that female exclusion from ordained ministry and church decision-making is no longer acceptable ...

Before leaving for his first apostolic trip to Turkey and Lebanon in November, Pope Leo XIV issued reforms to the Vatican’s labor laws. Both recognize the rapid changes in the makeup of the Catholic ...

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández said that the latest Vatican document is as much a reflection of Pope Francis’ pastoral thinking as it is a summary of the Church’s magisterial teaching that ‘the ...

At the conclusion of the conference, Mass in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe will take place at 4 p.m. local time in St. Peter ...

In the evocative new documentary Nuns vs the Vatican, director Lorena Luciano sets out to illuminate the stories of silence, ...

Representatives from the country's First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities were in Montreal to greet the arrival of 62 ...

Indigenous leaders waited on the snowy tarmac at Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport Saturday as the precious cargo was unloaded from an Air Canada jet.