I am writing in response to “Victims of their own monster; Ballyhooed system for monitoring priests fails” (Commentary, Feb. 16), by Eugene Cullen Kennedy, a former priest and professor… ...

In many other churches, the people have some say in selecting their leadership and therefore have some responsibility for their hierarchy’s actions. Not so in the Catholic Church, where new ...

Any male baptized in the Roman Catholic church is eligible to serve as pope. The conclave is highly secretive, and the candidates do not publicly campaign for the position. Catholic Church Hierarchy ...

The Catholic Church is not simply the Catholic hierarchy — those with titles of bishop, or cardinal or pope. These individuals do control the levers of power and authority in the church, but the ...

At the top of the Catholic Church’s hierarchy is the pope. He is said to be the successor of the Apostle Peter , about whom Christ said, “ You are Peter and on this rock I will build my church ...

After all the councils, hoopla, promises and panels, nothing has changed in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. The church will never be whole until all the archbishops, cardinals and bishops ...

Timothy Shriver’s March 1 op-ed, “The Vatican needs a mystic,” was inspiring. Mr. Shriver’s solution to the Catholic Church’s loss of spiritual bearings was to sound a call for the ...

WASHINGTON — Many years ago, in the early 1980s, I was drawn ever so transiently into the bureaucratic intricacies of the Roman Catholic Church in America. There was a saintly priest at Indiana ...