A commission set up by Pope Francis to study women deacons has voted against the possibility of ordaining women deacons while ...

The group was split 5-5 on a statement that held Jesus' masculinity and that of all who receive holy orders "is not ...

This column was written by Father Raymond J. de Souza. In the week since the Vatican released its new "Instruction" on the admission of men with homosexual tendencies to seminaries or to Holy Orders, ...

The purely historical perspective does not allow us to arrive at any definitive certainty,” a Vatican report concluded. “In ...

FAIRFAX STATION, VA. — Bishops and seminary rectors would do well to follow the Vatican's new instruction regarding admission of homosexuals to seminaries, said veteran vocations director Father James ...

In his weekly general audience Pope Francis continued his catechesis on the Sacraments, devoting today's discourse to those who receive Holy Orders, referring to it as a vocation of "service." "Those ...

And here are some reasons why. For the first time in history, we have a gender-balanced papal commission. When has that ever happened before? While Vatican spokesperson Jesuit Fr. Federico Lombardi ...

I’d like to introduce you to the Holy Order of the United Israelite Fellowship of the Six-Pointed Star (grateful nod to Leonard Cohen, who would have liked this idea). First, what is Holy? Let’s think ...