When America’s first state-sanctioned same-sex marriages took place in Massachusetts on May 17, 2004, Wilson and Compton’s ...

The church opposes in-vitro fertilization. But In the late 1950s, hundreds of nuns donated their urine to help advance IVF ...

The pontiff asked nations to help women juggle motherhood and work, create job security for young people and help couples buy ...

"Tradition is living" and not stagnant, Pope Francis wrote, and it must continually shape and take root in every part of the ...

Human life is not a problem, it is a gift,” said Pope Francis at a meeting on Italy's longtime decline in births and ...

The outreach, reflecting the most radical stage of his papacy, has prompted backlash while also altering the lives of the ...

As the Synod of Bishops on synodality resumes in five months in Rome, Catholic bishops in Africa are enthusiastic about the second part of the process, with some leaders however anxious that the ...

The United Methodist Church removed on Wednesday its longstanding ban on ordaining gay clergy, formalizing a shift in policy ...

Across the United States, the Catholic church is undergoing an immense shift molded by plummeting church attendance, ...

Generations of Catholics who embraced the modernizing tide sparked in the 1960s by Vatican II are increasingly giving way to ...

Proudly wearing a rainbow-colored clergy stole and a rainbow flag tucked into her clerical collar, the Rev. Elaine Saralegui welcomed all to her LGBTQ+ inclusive church in the Cuban port city of ...

Pope Francis meets inmates at the Giudecca women ... you are not a digital profile, but a child, that you have a Father in heaven and therefore you are a child of heaven,” he said, saying ...