Despite historic gains under Pope Francis, women remain excluded from the Catholic Church's highest levels of decision-making.

Pope Leo XIV singled out the challenges of artificial intelligence as he took office this month, underscoring religious ...

A Washington state lawmaker has called on the Catholic Church to change its centuries-old confessional policy so that priests ...

MORE: Pope Leo XIV live updates While Leo XIV's predecessor Pope Francis made historic strides in appointing women to leadership roles -- including Sister Raffaella Petrini as executive of Vatican ...

As Pope Leo takes office, a new Pew survey finds most U.S. Catholics want a more inclusive church on issues like birth ...

Last year, while Washington's current governor, Ferguson, was still the state's attorney general, he pushed to investigate Catholic church leadership in Seattle, Spokane and Yakima for allegedly ...

He pointed to the large gathering as evidence of the community’s backing for the Church leadership. Catholic Congress’s global president Rajiv Kochuparambil, who presided over the conference ...

It was April Fools Day, so if you had told Bishop Michael Martin that he was meeting with the next pope, he likely would have laughed it off. Martin, head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of ...

Pius X Catholic ... Church or not, it’s a monumental day especially for America. “The Pope has a unique role in the world of being able to speak to the nations- to speak to the leaders of ...