Pope Francis criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as “unjust,” saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catholic bishops who support the laws to welcome LGBTQ people into the church.
An official statement stating its parochial school students will have to conform to the gender with which they’re born or leave school has put Omaha’s Roman Catholic archdiocese squarely in the middle of a raging national debate over gender, identity and faith.
Pope Francis on Sunday announced the promotion of San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy to cardinal, passing over the higher-ranked San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone,...
At Beijing’s insistence last October, Hong Kong’s Bishop-elect Stephen Chow and 15 senior Catholic priests met with the mainland’s state-controlled Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association.