VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis says the church must study whether it's possible to ordain married men to minister in remote communities facing priest shortages. In an interview published Thursday with ...

HOUSTON -- A married Catholic priest who was ordained in Houston is facing felony charges, accused of attacking his wife for more than 18 hours. Reverend Luke Reese, 49, was ordained at The Cathedral ...

Pope Francis has declined to approve the ordination of married men to address the priest shortage in the Amazon. In an eagerly-awaited document, Francis didn’t even refer to recommendations by ...

The planned visit to the country by renegade former Roman Catholic Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo of Zambia is set to cause ripples within the local church that is grappling with the problem of priests ...

While married priests were common in Christianity’s first centuries, the Latin Rite — the largest of Catholicism’s branches, and the dominant rite in the West — has enforced a tradition of a celibate ...

A Catholic priest in Australia has come forward and admitted that he secretly married over a year ago, despite the Church's celibacy rule, and says he is one of many priests who have done the same.

American institutions–government, business, the church–have had a tough year. All face questions of leadership and moral credibility. There has been plenty of news coverage of the allegations of child ...

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