Montana Democrats proposed a law in January that would similarly force Catholic priests to weigh the risk of excommunication with imprisonment. In this historic time for our country, our reporters ...

As New Orleans church leaders braced for the fallout from publishing a list of predatory Catholic priests, they turned to an unlikely ally: the front office of the city’s NFL franchise.

Thank you, Cardinal Gregory, for being the man you are, the priest you are, and the bishop you are. We have been blessed by ...

This is the classification that’s available for foreign-born Catholic priests and religious who are already working in the country legally with temporary R-1 religious visas. The number of new ...

NEW ORLEANS — As New Orleans church leaders braced for the fallout from publishing a list of predatory Catholic priests, they turned to an unlikely ally: the front office of the city’s NFL ...

A 40-year-old man with a history of assault cases attacked a priest during a service Tuesday night at Our Lady of Lourdes Cathedral in downtown Spokane, according to the Spokane Police Department.

Abbé Pierre was a French Catholic priest renowned for his dedication to aiding the poor and homeless, and was long seen as the conscience of France. In 1949, he founded the Emmaüs movement ...

Spokane Bishop Thomas Daly is urging Catholic voters in Washington state to oppose a proposed law that would order priests to violate the seal of confession in cases where child abuse is revealed ...

And it is historically important to note that the very first criminal sexual-assault trial of a Catholic priest—that of Fr. Gilbert Gauthe in 1984—took place in Lafayette. (That trial spawned ...

O Jesus, our great High Priest, hear my humble prayers on behalf of your priests. Give them a deep faith, a bright and firm hope and a burning love which will ever increase in the course of their ...