(RNS) — For decades, older priests have complained about conservative younger priests who have been coming out of seminaries in recent years, while those younger priests have complained about old ...

VENEGONO, Italy—One of Pope Leo XIV’s biggest quandaries is a question God himself asked: Whom shall I send? As in the book of Isaiah, few are answering “Here I am.” The Catholic Church has a manpower ...

Father Edwin Román talked about his life in exile in an interview with ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner, expressing his hopes for the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which is suffering ...

For decades, older priests have complained about conservative younger priests who have been coming out of seminaries in recent years, while those younger priests have complained about old liberal ...

On Palm Sunday in 2002 as I prepared to begin Mass, I took a brown paper bag with the eyes, nose and mouth cut out and placed it over my head. As I processed up the aisle, I could hear giggles and saw ...

Following are NCR reader responses to recent news articles, opinion columns and theological essays with letters that have been edited for length and clarity. Both emphasized how out of sync younger ...

A major new study released last week offered further confirmation that U.S. priests ordained in the past 15 years are much more conservative, both politically and doctrinally, than their older ...

Father Father Emmanuel Baghwar receives treatment after the Oct. 1, 2025, assault on St. Joseph’s Church in Tumdegi, India. (Credit: Rev. Father Ignatius Tete, Vicar General, Simdega Catholic Diocese, ...

Officials in Washington state have agreed to back off a controversial effort to force priests there to violate the seal of confession as part of a mandatory abuse reporting law. A motion filed in ...

ATLANTA (CN) — A group of 12 men who say they were sexually abused as children by Catholic priests argued to an appeals court Thursday that the church should be liable for concealing the abuse. The ...

Young people come to New York City to chase careers, materialism and pleasure. The pursuit of faith isn’t exactly on the Big Apple checklist. However, at a recent, very crowded Sunday night mass at St ...