The strict hierarchical governance structure of the Catholic Church has the dubious advantage of simplicity and clarity along with increasing implausibility. Divine authority is claimed as its ...

COVER STORY JULY 29, 1968, may prove to be a major landmark in the long history of the Roman Catholic Church—as significant, perhaps, as the moment when Martin Luther decided to post his theses on ...

Can the Vatican’s latest order for seminaries to do a more thorough job preventing homosexuals from entering the priesthood be seen as anything other than more smoke and mirrors? Again the Holy See ...

Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, on Tuesday issued a pastoral letter stating that the Catholic Church has “no authority whatsoever” to ordain female priests or deacons, a declaration the ...

ROME has spoken,” runs an ancient proverb of the Roman Catholic Church. “The case is closed.” No longer true. Last week Pope Paul VI formally promulgated his encyclical on birth control, which ...

Father Murray’s concerns echo those of Cardinal Gerhard Müller, who explained to the Register that in the Catholic Church “the bishops are there because they have authority and divine right; they have ...

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Cardinal Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, archbishop emeritus of Guadalajara, Mexico, and one of the five signatories of the recent dubia sent to Pope Francis on matters of doctrine and discipline in the ...

To be an Evangelical Catholic is to hold the tension between truth and tradition, Word and Spirit, past and future ...

Traditionalist Catholics once again find themselves chafing against the authority of progressive leaders, much as against ...