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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I cannot think of one good reason for the Catholic church to continue its policy of compulsory celibacy for priests. I search my mind in vain for any cogent explanation for maintaining the present ...

Nearly 60 percent of Irish Catholic priests say celibacy should not be compulsory — but almost the same number think scrapping the rule would not help to improve recruitment levels, a survey showed on ...

Italian Archbishop Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s new secretary of state, discussed the Catholic understanding of priestly celibacy in an interview with the Venezuelan newspaper El Universal earlier ...

Clerical celibacy is an issue that the ongoing final sessions of the Synod on Synodality should have discussed. However, the hierarchy continues to peripheralize it, despite its deleterious impacts on ...