A church community in Flintshire has been left reeling by the resignation of a vicar amid claims of a “toxic situation”. All ...

NEW ORLEANS — Archbishop Gregory Aymond is submitting his resignation ... In a letter issued Friday to priests and deacons under his command, Aymond cited canon – or church – law that ...

Pope Francis recently issued a letter "On the Renewal of the Study of the History of the Church." No matter: Francis himself seems to have forgotten the history of women ordained as deacons.

In a resignation letter he sent on 4 December, the former Church letter said he had been ... in active ministry since 1962 when I was made Deacon and then Priested in 1963. It has been an honour ...

And there are no specific norms outlining what happens to the leadership of the Catholic Church if a pope becomes ... he was elected pope he wrote a letter of resignation, to be invoked if he ...

he told a church deacon to destroy it. The deacon told police he used a blow torch to burn the hard drive. In his July 12 letter apologizing to St. Susanna parishioners, Stechschulte wrote that he ...