At a key Vatican synod forum, canon law professor Donata Horak urged the church to abandon its monarchical model, advocating ...

An Antipope is what the Roman Catholic Church considers to be a false claimant to be the Bishop of Rome, and, by the nature ...

Pope Francis took the unusual decision Wednesday to expel 10 people – a bishop, priests and laypeople – from a troubled Catholic movement in Peru after a Vatican investigation uncovered ...

For Louise Dowhan, 59 and a member of East Kildonan’s St. Alphonsus Parish, the Church’s reluctance to involve women more ...

Vatican City • For the first time, victims of clerical abuse, war and indifference told their stories in the marbled nave of St. Peter’s Basilica before Pope Francis, prominent prelates and ...

Pope Francis promised Saturday to "offer all the help we can" to aid clergy sexual abuse victims, after a group of Belgian survivors told him first-hand of the trauma that had shattered their ...

Pope Francis has pledged to root out the “scourge” of clerical sexual abuse after Belgium’s prime minster urged him in unusually frank terms to take concrete action. Francis was addressing ...

Belgium's prime minister has delivered unusually sharp criticism of Pope Francis on Friday, demanding accountability for the Catholic Church's cover-up of clerical sex abuse. Prime Minister ...

Pope Francis criticized military attacks that go "beyond morality" after he was asked about Israel's recent escalation of attacks in Lebanon that targeted top Hezbollah commanders. Francis made ...

ROME — A Catholic university in Belgium took the rare step of criticizing Pope Francis, using the word “reductive” to describe his views about the role of women in society, delivered during ...

BRUSSELS (CNS) -- Calling on the world’s bishops not to cover up any instance or form of abuse, Pope Francis said the evil of abuse must be exposed. “There is room for everyone in the church ...

While the cupboard was bare when new coach Mark Pope arrived from BYU, the Kentucky alum turned to the transfer portal to replenish the ranks. Of the 12 scholarship players on the Wildcats' 2024 ...