BOSTON -- The clergy sexual abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church has sparked an examination of the hierarchy's power, the role of the laity and the church's teachings on sexuality by theologians ...

The Catholic Church's synodal process, intended to actively solicit input from all its members, is not a threat to the hierarchy, a cardinal said. "The hierarchical structures of the church have ...

The Church can sometimes seem fractured. The Catholic Church is a big tent. That is one of its core strengths: the fact that ...

AARON WEINMANN/THE HOYA Robert Bennett (CAS ’61, LAW ’64), Karen Tumulty, John Carr, Dawn Eden Goldstein and Kevin Byrnes react to sexual abuse in the church. Catholic clergy cannot be trusted to ...

A forum of priests, nuns, laypeople, and activists in Indonesia has urged the Catholic Church hierarchy to tackle sexual abuse head-on and to end the practice of cover-up for the sake of protecting ...

VATICAN CITY— Will the Synod on Synodality result in changes to established Church teaching? But some participants may be using the synodal process to try to change something arguably even more ...

The Catholic Diocese of Knoxville has undergone an uncertain experience since the resignation of Bishop Richard Stika in June 2023. Stika left under a cloud of mismanagement accusations, two explosive ...

A new pope will be selected to lead the Catholic Church following the death of Pope Francis. The pope is chosen during a highly secretive election called a conclave. Francis, 88, died on April 21. The ...

It was in late spring, 1985, when I received a call from NCR's then-editor Tom Fox. I think he said he hoped I was sitting down. Fox and I often exchanged calls when we thought that one of our ...

My first encounter with the phrase “hierarchy of truths” did little to endear it to me. Early in my Jesuit formation, I once ventured that the well-known doctrinal disagreements among ...