That’s how dozens of Blessed Sacrament students welcomed the man they once knew as Father Godfrey Mullen, now Bishop Godfrey, the 10th Bishop of the Diocese of Belleville, a post that's been around ...

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, the former general relator of the Synod on Synodality, has publicly called for the ordination of women, arguing that the Church cannot long endure if half of the ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - The Diocese of Tucson is set to celebrate the ordination and installation of Bishop-elect James A. Misko as the 8th bishop of the diocese. On Thursday, Feb. 19 from 5:30 to 6:30 ...

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles on Saturday, May 31, ordained eight new priests from across California, including a 56-year-old former finance consultant from Diamond Bar and a 40-year-old Vietnam ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In the first week of February, the Vatican department that oversees Catholic Church doctrine accepted written testimonies about women in the church whose experience conforms with ...

The Vatican has closed the door for now on ordaining women deacons, but this does not diminish the leadership roles women can occupy within the Catholic Church. Instead, we are called to redefine the ...

The first week of the Synod on Synodality session is in the books, and if you’ve been following the media’s account of things, you’d be forgiven for thinking the event is primarily focused on ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The Sunday after her confirmation, when young people raised Catholic are supposed to embrace their faith for themselves, Ellie Hidalgo’s niece begged her parents to not make her ...

The Most Rev. Sithembele Sipuka, the president of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference,in August questioned the ongoing discussion on the ordination of women to the diaconate but proposed ...

The Catholic Church has announced that 21 men have begun studies which may lead to their ordination as priests for its 26 Irish dioceses. The men are currently undertaking an initial Propaedeutic ...

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the flagship rabbinical school of Reform Judaism, will allow students to pursue ordination remotely, the school announced Tuesday, part of a program ...

VATICAN CITY — Discussions about women’s ordination to the priesthood have become livelier in the waning days of the Synod on Synodality, Pope Francis’s month-long summit to discuss pressing issues ...