Most married priests, especially those organized into groups pressing for reform like CORPUS, or Call to Action, are straightforward about who they are. Some are uncomfortable with the idea of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...