Candidates for the seminary should not be disqualified based on sexual orientation, according to new church guidelines in ...

The Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, on Friday consecrated a new church at a place on the banks of the ...

A new tour for Jubilee 2025 of the Vatican Gardens at the pope’s summer palace in Castel Gandolfo aims to bring Pope Francis’ ...

It's an unexpected adjustment from the Vatican, which previously said that men with "deep-seated homosexual tendencies" could ...

A new document by the Italian bishops’ conference states that being openly gay no longer bars candidates from discerning the ...

Bishop Dominique Rey of the Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon announced his resignation three years early at the request of Pope ...

ROME—Pope Francis on January 6 named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, to become prefect of the department responsible for all the ...

Pope Francis is praying for victims and rescuers trying to control the wildfires in California that have killed at least 11 ...

The Vatican has approved new guidelines saying gay men to train as priests in Italy, provided they do not 'flaunt' their ...

The Catholic Church teaches that hope is one of the three theological virtues — along with faith and charity — which God ...

When he was 13, Ralph Fiennes told his mother he wasn’t going to go to Mass any more. “My mother was a committed Catholic, very much so,” he says. In his early teens, the Fiennes family was living in ...

The Vatican has approved new guidelines that allow gay men to become priests as long as they abstain from sex ...