Sept. 20 -- Inspiring young Catholic men to join the priesthood has become a problem in the United States, where there are now more than 3,000 parishes without priests. Even in parishes that do have ...

Most married priests, especially those organized into groups pressing for reform like CORPUS, or Call to Action, are straightforward about who they are. Some are uncomfortable with the idea of ...

A new Vatican document suggests the possibility of married men as priests and women in leading roles in the Catholic church in the Amazon. This question has been raised by a preparatory document for a ...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis says the church must study whether it's possible to ordain married men to minister in remote communities facing priest shortages. In an interview published Thursday with ...

While married priests were common in Christianity’s first centuries, the Latin Rite — the largest of Catholicism’s branches, and the dominant rite in the West — has enforced a tradition of a celibate ...

The planned visit to the country by renegade former Roman Catholic Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo of Zambia is set to cause ripples within the local church that is grappling with the problem of priests ...