When the American Cardinals met with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican recently, they reaffirmed their belief in celibacy. CARDINAL THEODORE McCARRICK, Archbishop of Washington, D.C.: It's not the ...

With the numerous sex scandals within the Catholic Church, some are appealing for the church to take a more in-depth review and reconsider the qualification of celibacy and the priesthood. This ...

An Australian inquiry into child abuse could rock the Roman Catholic Church. The panel on Friday called on the church to repeal its celibacy requirement for priests, and said clergy should face ...

PELHAM, New York -- A shocking report out of Australia suggests ending mandatory celibacy for Catholic priests could help protect children from sexual abuse. The study claims tens of thousands of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roman Catholic priest Michal Lajcha looks out in Klak, Slovakia, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. Lajcha is challenging the Roman Catholic ...

At the June 13-15 meeting of America's Roman Catholic bishops to discuss priestly sex-abuse scandals, one matter will be off the agenda: reconsideration of priestly celibacy. The Vatican's April ...

KLAK, Slovakia (AP) — A priest in the conservative Roman Catholic stronghold of Slovakia has challenged the church’s celibacy rules, voicing his dissent at a time when clerical celibacy is once again ...

In recent times there has been an increasing number of challenges to the rule of mandatory celibacy for priests. This is understandable in a society that has become sexually permissive almost beyond ...

In a statement released on Wednesday, the Catholic League criticized the HBO special “Celibacy,” a documentary in the “America Undercover” series, aired on June 28. The documentary purports to be an ...

BERLIN (AP) — A prominent German archbishop advocated loosening celibacy rules for Catholic priests in comments published Thursday before a meeting of a German reform assembly. Cardinal Reinhard Marx, ...

PELHAM, New York -- A shocking report out of Australia suggests ending mandatory celibacy for Catholic priests could help protect children from sexual abuse. The study claims tens of thousands of ...