Confession, the Catholic and Orthodox practice of listing one’s sins in the presence of a priest who then offers absolution and is sworn to secrecy under pain of eternal damnation, has long been ...

New film coming to BBC Northern Ireland tells the incredible story of three Parish Priests who burst on to the music scene The Priests perform for the final time in the Ulster Hall, Belfast (Image ...

The Vatican has given the green light for gay men to become priests - as long as they remain celibate. In an unexpected adjustment to practice in the Catholic Church, the new guidelines from ...

The recent Pew Research Center survey of Latin American Catholics, however, was a great surprise in that it showed there is more support in Latin America for women priests than for married priests.

In an era of deep divisions in the church, newly ordained priests overwhelmingly lean right in their theology, practices and politics. Newly ordained priests bow toward Archbishop Jerome Listecki ...

Priests in Germany are not supportive of the controversial German Synodal Way, according to a new study commissioned by the German Bishops’ Conference. The study, officially titled “Who ...

The failed murder-suicide attempt shocked Greater Cincinnati. A Catholic priest caught on tape threatening to shoot a former student and then kill himself. Echoes of Father Bierman's demented ...

ST. JOHNS — A retired priest who once ran the Diocese of Lansing's St. Francis Retreat Center in DeWitt was sentenced to a minimum of four years in prison Monday for embezzling hundreds of ...

But according to Catholic theology, we cannot have the Eucharist without priests. Sadly, in many parts of the world there is a Eucharistic famine, precisely because there are no priests to ...