Facing a priest shortage, the Catholic Church in the United States has started turning to former Anglican leaders to fill empty parishes. The numbe...

We live in a time when Catholic priests are an aging and shrinking group, damaged in morale and reputation, overstretched in their monopolization of all sacramental services. What we really need are no priests.

“In an effort to continue the pastoral mission of the church in the Five Towns … the parishes are going to work together to provide pastoral servi...

By Michael O'Malley Religion News Service CLEVELAND -- In days long gone, Roman Catholic priests regularly made deathbed house calls, even in the mid...

By Daniel Burke Religion News Service BALTIMORE (RNS) He's performed so many funerals, they call him "Burying Joe." A recent Saturday afternoon fou...