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 ...

Roman Catholic priest Michal Lajcha looks out in Klak, Slovakia, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. Lajcha is challenging the Roman Catholic Church’s celibacy rules in a rare instance of dissent in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Oct. 28, 2004, 8:54 AM EDT / Source: Reuters 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 ...

After media outlets misinterpreted an article by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn to say that he is questioning the Church's rule of priestly celibacy, several high ranking churchmen have spoken out in ...

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 ...

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 ...

KLAK, Slovakia – 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 a ...