ANALYSIS: By reshaping competencies, tightening accountability and institutionalizing consultation, the new regulations ...

The anniversary offers an opportunity to reflect not just on what the document says, but on the young papacy of Leo XIV.

The opinion by the head of a commission charged with considering the question in effect states that the Catholic Church ...

As the church commemorates 60 years since the closing of Vatican II, here are seven key issues and documents that serve as ...

The world lost influential people in 2025, and some of their deaths had significant impacts. Pope Francis died in April, ...

Leo on Thursday formally suppressed the fundraising commission, abrogated its statutes and fired its members. He decreed that ...

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

Leo XIV has governed through pastoral warmth, quiet competence and careful incrementalism. Whether that approach heals the ...

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

A second Vatican study commission has determined that women should not be ordained as deacons, dealing another setback to ...

Catholic cardinals gathered in Vatican City to cast their first vote as part of the conclave to elect the successor to Pope Francis. After the garrulous Francis, the cardinals may conclude that ...

But a papal commission examining the question said further study was required, and advised that women should be given other ...