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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ara is one of as many as 100,000 men worldwide who have left the Roman Catholic priesthood, many of them in order to marry. In the U.S. there are as many as 20,000 married priests (conservative ...

ROCHESTER — Father David Medow knows what he is. Father of two children. Husband to June, his wife of 46 years. And a Catholic priest. All that makes Medow one more thing: “A curiosity.” That’s ...

GRAND ISLAND - Among the three men new to the Roman Catholic priesthood in Nebraska is one with a wife, four children and several grandchildren. Bishop William Dendinger says the Rev. Sidney Bruggeman ...

Phil and Linda Marcin met five decades ago, but he still gets a twinkle in his eye when he describes the first time he saw the "beautiful blonde" who would eventually become his wife. The only problem ...

The Rev. Gregory Lockwood has people in his life that few Catholic priests have. Lockwood has been married for 37 years, is a father of five and grandfather of five. Lockwood, 55, recently was named ...

A glamorous nun has married a Catholic priest after they fell in love while praying together. Lais Dognini, a former nun who later became an influencer, originally met priest Jackson Dognini when he ...