For the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and for millions of other people as well, the Catholic Church's 2025 was primarily ...

An Evangelical theologian has questioned the theological coherence of a recent Vatican doctrinal note addressing the ...

As the church commemorates 60 years since the closing of Vatican II, here are seven key issues and documents that serve as ...

Pope Leo’s updates to the Vatican labor code attempt to streamline a Curia under pressure, from pension woes to a dwindling ...

Discussions over women becoming deacons, who are ordained and can assist with services but cannot celebrate Mass, have ...

A Vatican-appointed commission says current church teaching does not allow women to be ordained as Catholic deacons.

Is the Holy Spirit telling us that female exclusion from ordained ministry and church decision-making is no longer acceptable ...

But a papal commission examining the question said further study was required, and advised that women should be given other ...

Some Protestant scholars who spoke with CNA welcomed a Vatican document that clarified titles for the Blessed Virgin Mary that discouraged the use of Co-Redemptrix/Co-Redeemer and put limits on the ...

Pope Leo's selection had spurred optimism that the Church's stance on female deacons might change. That was not to be the ...

In a lengthy response, the International Marian Association Theological Commission highlights what it sees as significant ...

In the evocative new documentary Nuns vs the Vatican, director Lorena Luciano sets out to illuminate the stories of silence, ...