COMMENTARY: Liturgical vestments like copes, chasubles and dalmatics are part of the beauty of the liturgy, alongside church ...

Mario D. Divina is not an authorized priest of the Roman Catholic Church. He is also not affiliated with the Diocese of Bacolod. “While he wears the vestments of a Catholic priest, whatever sacraments ...

The “priesthood” is a concept. A Phineas Priest is any individual who commits a “Phineas action,” a reference to an Old Testament story in which an interfaith couple is slain by a Hebrew man named ...

Early this morning: Mainly clear & moonlit. Cold & not as windy with lows in the teens. Today: Becoming cloudy, not as windy but still cold. Scattered late afternoon & evening snow showers/light snow.

You can read Part 1 here. (NCR logo/Toni-Ann Ortiz) PJ D'Amico said his "45-year ordeal" began the first time he was sexually abused by his priest. D'Amico was a sixth grader who worshiped with ...

Some were driven away by the lingering horror — and coverup — of clergy sex abuse of children. Others have diverging attitudes on issues like abortion, birth control, acceptance of LGBTQ+ ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The windy, flame-fanning weather that put the nation’s second most-populous metropolitan region on edge eased up Wednesday as firefighters made significant gains against the two ...

The Vatican has approved new guidelines from Italian bishops that allow gay men to enter seminaries as long as they abstain from sex, in an unexpected adjustment to how the global Catholic Church ...

More than 20 years after the Archdiocese of Boston achieved notoriety as the epicenter of the clergy sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, aftershocks are still coming. Last week ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration is less than a week away, and early forecasts indicate it could be the coldest since President Ronald Reagan’s in 1985, when temperatures ...

A former priest has pleaded guilty to using an online chat service which discussed having sex with children. Timothy Gardner, of Medhurst Way in Littlemore, Oxford, appeared at Newcastle Crown Court.