The Catholic Church treats information shared during confession as absolutely confidential – but that requirement can create ...

Pope Leo XIV shared Sunday pranzo with a group of people from the Diocese of Albano. During the event, the diocesan bishop of ...

In her address to the Congress of the European Society for Catholic Theology at Trinity College Dublin, Professor Soskice ...

Vatican City, Oct 11, 2023 / 15:40 pm Participants in the Synod on Synodality have asked “for greater discernment on the teaching of the Church on the subject of sexuality,” a Vatican ...

But some participants may be using the synodal process to try to change something arguably even more fundamental: the way the Church determines its doctrine altogether.Grounded in a contested ...

Vatican City, Nov 15, 2023 / 05:40 am The Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) released a document on Wednesday reaffirming that Catholics are forbidden from becoming Freemasons.

The Committee on Doctrine is a guardian of church canon in the United States, promoting the pope's teachings, clarifying church positions and studying the writings of Catholic theologians to ...

As in vitro fertilization (IVF) continues to make headlines, the status of the many embryos created and frozen in this process is a key concern for ...

The bill aims to expand access to a medical approach focused on improving quality of life for seriously ill patients near the ...

Catholic bishops from around the world are meeting this month at the Vatican to discuss possible reforms, including the potential for a greater role of women in the church. It’s part of a years ...

Some erstwhile celibate priests are challenging the celibacy doctrine, arguing the entire body of Catholic clergy is a victim of fleshpot hunger. They argue further that it is un-African not to ...

That's the law, and it's the law that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops advocated for. Most ministerial employees of Catholic organizations don't know this. We should tell them.