Like most of his fellow Italians, Mattia Nanetti, 25, from the northern city of Bologna, grew up with the teachings and sacraments of the Catholic Church in parochial school. But in September 2019 he ...

Speaking on the impact of same-sex marriage on the Catholic Church in Canada, Cardinal Marc Ouellet reportedly told the Senate hearing committee last Wednesday that in the case of baptism, “according ...

Nov. 9 (UPI) --The Catholic Church will allow transgender adults to be baptized under the same terms as any other person eligible to receive the holy sacrament so long as it does not bring scandal to ...

The Diocese of Phoenix is working to communicate with its parishes to alert anyone who may have received an invalid baptism from the Rev. Andres Arango any time before June 17, 2021. The baptisms were ...

A German Catholic diocese has commissioned 17 women to administer baptisms, citing a shortfall in the number of priests. The Diocese of Essen, in Germany’s industrial Ruhr area, is the first diocese ...

From the beginning of his priesthood in 1995, the Rev. Andres Arango performed the sacred ritual of baptism. Or so he believed. For a quarter-century, Father Arango baptized thousands of children and ...

The pandemic prohibited many Roman Catholics from their Sunday Mass practice. For some, that absence prompted a serious reflection on what Mass and their church meant to them. The National Conference ...

PHOENIX - In a unique situation for people of the Roman Catholic faith, a priest is resigning after the church's Phoenix Diocese determined the words he was using during baptisms are wrong, meaning ...

In the United States, the national conference of Catholic bishops rejects the concept of gender transition, leaving many transgender Catholics feeling excluded. On Wednesday, the Vatican made public a ...

Father Christopher Thomas, general secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. (Credit: UK Parliament.) Listen LEICESTER, United Kingdom – A member of the Catholic Bishops’ ...