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 ...

The Duchess of Kent's brother-in-law, Prince Michael of Kent, forfeited his place in the line of succession through his ...

There are two things you can bet on when voting for a new Pope begins: they will be Catholic – and a man. But with more than half of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics being female, why can’t women be ...