Pope Francis told members and staff of the Dicastery for Communication that the Vatican and the Catholic Church need their ...

A sense of urgency has been growing after the role of women emerged as a dominant theme when Catholics from across the globe were canvassed for their views ahead of a meeting of bishops and lay people ...

Pope Francis speaks to members of the Synod of Bishops on synodality after they approved their final document Oct. 26, 2024, ...

Francis created the commission in 2014, a year after his election, to advise the Vatican on best practices to prevent clergy ...

"I do not intend to publish an apostolic exhortation. What we have approved is enough," Pope Francis said. Instead, he ...

Pope Francis' three-year consultation on the future of the Catholic Church concluded on Oct. 26, outlining the institution's ...

A meeting four years in the making said the ordination of women required further study, but it called for women to have more ...

I am convinced that we cannot wait to take steps forward for the empowerment of women in the church” by distinguishing what requires ordination and what does not, Cardinal Fernández told about 100 ...

After a Vatican summit on the future of the Catholic Church that ended without enacting any major reforms, Pope Francis is ...

The gathering, which included cardinals, bishops and lay people from more than 110 countries, also did not take a stand on ...

The pope's commission on clerical child sex abuse said it will publish its first annual report next week, a decade after the ...

The Catholic Church must do a better job of handling compensation for the victims of clergy sexual abuse, the Vatican's child ...