Conscience is something very sacred. It gives us a sense of right and wrong and urges us to do the right thing. Conscience is what compelled Austrian Franz Jagerstatter to refuse to enlist in Hitler's ...

Pope Leo XIV ordered the release of the Summary of the Study Commission on the Female Diaconate last week, marking a new low ...

I would like to tell you about the other Catholic church in town, Light of Christ, which is part of the Ecumenical Catholic ...

Update: The Vatican has now issued the norms on dealing with priest sex abuse cases and other “more grave crimes” including “attempted sacred ordination of a woman.” They took great pains to ...

NEWS UPDATE Aug. 14: Maryknoll Fr. Roy Bourgeois, who attended the ordination of Janice Sevre-Duszynska and preached a homily, has been summoned by the superior general of his order. Bourgeois is to ...

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A former advocate of women's ordination, who attempted to be ordained as a deacon, has renounced her attempt to join the priesthood and declared her adherence to Church teaching. “I relinquish all ...

Nine men will become Catholic priests Saturday in the nation’s capital–the Washington archdiocese’s largest ordination class in 14 years. The past year’s news stories about sex scandals have not ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A survey of the 2020 priestly ordination class was published by the U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference (USCCB) on Thursday, a slightly smaller class than in 2019. Sponsored by the ...

Georgia priest ordained a Kentucky woman in 2008 in Lexington, Ky. He was excommunicated from Catholic church then but remained a member of his religious order Because he refused to recant his beliefs ...

A survey of the 2020 priestly ordination class was published by the U.S. Catholic bishops' conference (USCCB) on Thursday, a slightly smaller class than in 2019. Sponsored by the bishops' Committee on ...