Tag: Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith

VATICAN CITY  -- Being a Christian means defending human dignity and that includes opposing abortion, the death penalty, gender transition surgery, war, sexual abuse...

VATICAN CITY -- Five years after Pope Francis' summit on fighting clerical sexual abuse, a Rome lawyer had advice for religious women sexually abused...

VATICAN CITY-- The Catholic Church should revise its celibacy requirement for Latin-rite priests, a senior official in the Vatican's doctrinal office said. "If it were...

VATICAN CITY -- While bishops may take a cautious approach to the Vatican's guidance on blessing same-sex or other unmarried couples, they should not...

VATICAN CITY  -- U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, a former top Vatican official, met privately with Pope Francis Dec. 29, about a month after...

VATICAN CITY  -- The Vatican's affirmation that a priest can give an informal blessing to a gay couple who asks for one is not...

VATICAN CITY -- The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith's declaration on informally blessing same-sex couples or other non-married couples is a reminder...

VATICAN CITY -- Women who have conceived a child out of wedlock and have the courage to choose life for their baby "should be...

Two days after news broke Father Marko Rupnik was incardinated by Slovenia's Koper diocese, the Vatican announced Oct. 27 that Pope Francis has lifted...

VATICAN CITY -- The Catholic Church, in pursuit of "pastoral prudence," should discern if there are ways of giving blessings to homosexual persons that...