Francis-aligned’ bishops are following the late pope’s lead in stirring debate where politics and pastoral issues meet.

Will Leo XIV push for the full inclusion of women and LGBTQIA+ people into the Church hierarchy, serving as priests and in policy-making and -enforcing bodies? 4.

Religious leaders are inclined to share successful experiences for peace without interfering in the ‘responsibilities of the ...

When Pope Francis’s first encyclical on the environment was released ten years ago this summer, it made headlines beyond ...

Archbishop Cordileone, who has served as the San Francisco archbishop since 2012, is the third member of the Catholic hierarchy to be given a role in the presidential commission’s work.

For Catholic fundamentalists, to break faith with the church hierarchy is to break faith with, well, the faith. A few separate from the church, either voluntarily or by ecclesiastical edict, but ...

Four deaf Wisconsin men were some of the first to seek justice after suffering childhood sexual abuse at the hands of a priest, and a new documentary about the Catholic Church's poor handling of ...

It seems like they advance about 50 years forward every three centuries. At this rate, they’ll never enter the current times. They’re all organized on a radical patriarchal hierarchy; they ...