To say that clerical celibacy can lead to sex abuse is “much too simplistic” because most abuse happens in the family, where the majority of the perpetrators are married men or other family members, a ...

Tom McMahon lived with the woman he called his wife and their two sons just 10 miles from where he worked in Northern California. But he hoped his boss would never find out: McMahon was a Roman ...

Pope Francis closed the door Jan. 27 on his making celibacy optional for all Catholic priests, but also expressed openness to allowing older married men to be ordained to the priesthood where there is ...

Tom McMahon lived with the woman he called his wife and their two sons just 10 miles from where he worked in Northern California. But he hoped his boss would never find out: McMahon was a Roman ...

Pope Leo XIV has issued a clear mandate to the world's Catholic hierarchy, affirming the necessity of priestly celibacy. Leo’s directives, which also included "firm and decisive" action from bishops ...

Italian Archbishop Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s new secretary of state, discussed the Catholic understanding of priestly celibacy in an interview with the Venezuelan newspaper El Universal earlier ...

Those resisting change say celibacy has other benefits, not least among them financial: Imagine if the world s 400,000 Roman Catholic priests all had families, presumably large ones given the church s ...

Pope Francis said Monday celibacy for priests was a "gift to the Church" and not "optional", nixing the prospect of married men being ordained. "Personally I think that celibacy is a gift to the ...

In quashing the idea of married priests in the Amazon, Pope Francis has appeased traditionalists while disappointing progressives who had hoped for a historic turning point in the Catholic church. In ...

With this new proposal, the Church in Austria is committed to integrating the path to the priesthood with the daily lives of ...