When Charles Ara fell in love, at the age of 39, he faced an anguished choice. As a priest in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, he had taken a vow of celibacy. But after working alongside the ...

A glamorous nun has married a Catholic priest after they fell in love while praying together. Lais Dognini, a former nun who ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sept. 20 -- Inspiring young Catholic men to join the priesthood has become a problem in the United States, where there are now more than 3,000 parishes without priests. Even in parishes that do have ...

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 ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Pope Francis has said he is willing to consider ordaining older married men as priests in isolated communities, but has ruled out making celibacy optional to tackle a shortage of ...

Tuesday, the Atlantic Wire covered the astonished reaction to the Vatican's announcement of a proposed amnesty of sorts for Anglicans. Pope Benedict XVI has decided that Anglicans wishing to rejoin ...

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 ...