"I think what we should do is to stop calling the American bishops 'bishops,' and start calling them homophobes," said the Rev. Joe Akus, a priest who ministers to a congregation called Dignity, a ...

VATICAN CITY — Holding together the obligation to protect and promote the Catholic identity of Catholic schools while reaching out to a broader community of students and teachers requires a commitment ...

Leaders of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith spent three days in late September listening to women theologians, canon lawyers, Scripture scholars and specialists in other academic fields ...

The congregation issued the new norms concerning the affiliation, aggregation, and incorporation of such institutions Dec. 9, in Italian, French, Spanish and Polish. Archbishop Vincenzo Zani, the ...

The prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) wrote Friday to the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops regarding admission to Communion, affirming the centrality of ...

Editor’s note: This story was produced through a partnership between the INDY and The 9th Street Journal, which is published by journalism students at Duke University’s DeWitt Wallace Center for Media ...

Father Andrew Liaugminas of the Archdiocese of Chicago has been appointed to serve at the doctrine section of the Catholic Church’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The 37-year-old priest ...

The largest Catholic congregation in the U.S. is now in California's Central Valley. It serves more than 14,000 families. Its size correlates with the dramatically falling number of Catholic priests.

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A Catholic priest in California is about to be another kind of father — after he unleashed his unholy spirit and begot a child. Father Daniel McFalls quit his job at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — The announcement of a new pope Thursday swept through downtown St. Augustine, a city founded on the Catholic faith. The fact that he is an American thoroughly surprised people in ...

Pope Francis greets Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, during a meeting at the Vatican in this Feb. 9, 2017, file photo. The Congregation for Catholic ...