ROME (AP) — Pope Francis urged religious orders on Monday to work and pray harder for new priests and nuns to join, as he acknowledged the congregations’ futures are at risk with the numbers of men ...
This is a campaign photo for the Retirement Fund for Religious. The collection will be held in most U.S. Catholic parishes Dec. 9-10, 2023. (Credit: National Religious Retirement Office) Listen NEW ...
Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, previously led a Catholic religious order. Prevost, 69, who chose the name Pope Leo XIV, was formerly the ...
Survivors of child sex abuse in Irish schools have questioned the establishment of a new Commission of Investigation without an accompanying mechanism for redress. Advocacy groups warned that without ...
Pope Francis was the first pontiff elected from the Society of Jesus — also known as the Jesuits.It's one of the most prominent religious orders in the Catholic Church, with approximately 15,000 ...
Jan. 11—A woman who says she was abused by priests in Maine when she was a young girl in the 1950s has been allowed to sue a Catholic religious order anonymously. The woman, who filed her civil ...