Physicians and members of the clergy approach healing in different ways. Physicians treat bodies, which means taking vital signs, making diagnoses based on empirical evidence and prescribing ...

(RNS) — Having a clear plan for an intentional health or wellbeing practice can lead to flourishing when it comes to mental health for clergy. (RNS) — America’s pastors are tired. The ...

With nearly 1,000 people filing sexual abuse claims against the Archdiocese of Baltimore to which the Roman Catholic Church admits, I will continue to ask an important question (“Attorney: 900 ...

NEW ORLEANS — A Roman Catholic diocese in central Louisiana appears ready to join 40 other organizations of its kind in the US by filing for federal bankruptcy protection as the church’s ...

Vatican Summit Praises Women's Leadership, but Stops Short on Women Clergy By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A major Vatican summit of global Catholic leaders ended on Saturday with a ...

Parts of the Roman Catholic Church are still failing to ensure clerical sexual abuse is reported adequately, Pope Francis’ commission for child protection said Tuesday, raising concerns about a ...

The Catholic Church has an all-male clergy and Pope John Paul II declared it had no authority to ordain women as priests. But church historians say there is evidence that in earlier centuries ...

Titled 'Healing Together', the Diocese of London is offering the service to ethnic minority clergy who can apply for up to six sessions of 'trauma-informed coaching'. The therapy sessions will ...

The decline of organized religion, the aftermath of a worldwide pandemic, political polarization — and the burden of caring ...

Shea, 64, said he was told that Healey was conducting a wide-ranging investigation into clergy sexual abuse in the Worcester diocese. Shea had become an outspoken advocate for survivors of such ...

(AP) — Vermont’s Catholic church has filed for bankruptcy protection as it faces more than 30 lawsuits alleging child sex abuse by clergy decades ago, according to a filing in federal ...

But advocates say Francis has taken the issue of women clergy off the table at the synod, by asking the Vatican's typically conservative doctrinal office to take over study of whether women can be ...