Despite historic gains under Pope Francis, women remain excluded from the Catholic Church's highest levels of decision-making.

The legislation, which now heads to the Senate, would add Medicaid work requirements for most adults without disabilities or ...

A Washington state lawmaker has called on the Catholic Church to change its centuries-old confessional policy so that priests ...

After priest reassignments in the Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg, Christ the King Mission here now falls under the pastoral ...

The new pope opposed letting women serve as deacons but endorsed some of his predecessor’s moves to expand their involvement.

Pope Leo XIV has spoken publicly about the challenges to human dignity, justice and labor that arise from “developments in ...

It was April Fools Day, so if you had told Bishop Michael Martin that he was meeting with the next pope, he likely would have laughed it off. Martin, head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of ...

Last year, while Washington's current governor, Ferguson, was still the state's attorney general, he pushed to investigate Catholic church leadership in Seattle, Spokane and Yakima for allegedly ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech ... the first US pontiff in the 2,000-year history of the Roman Catholic Church – will be held in St. Peter's Square on 18 May.

He pointed to the large gathering as evidence of the community’s backing for the Church leadership. Catholic Congress’s global president Rajiv Kochuparambil, who presided over the conference ...