Francis-aligned’ bishops are following the late pope’s lead in stirring debate where politics and pastoral issues meet.

My note to newspaper editors is that what is generally called the Roman Catholic Church should now appropriately be called the Roman Catholic Crime Syndicate not the Catholic hierarchy.

JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING ADMITTED TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY IMPRESSIVE SERVICES IN ST.PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL THE ROMANRITUAL USED FOR THE FIRST-TIME IN AMERICA. May 2, 1877 The New York Times ...

The Roman Catholic hierarchy has generally been viewed as a unified bloc in opposition to gay rights, but the emergence of especially punitive measures against gays in various countries has opened ...

Many Catholic laity are experiencing a painful disconnect between the official teachings and pronouncements of the Catholic hierarchy and what they believe in their hearts.

Scottish Roman Catholic HierarchyOn the 19th October, 1850, there appeared, as the first leader in the London Times, an article destined to create a stir such as does not occur in England twice in ...

MEXICO CITY — The Roman Catholic hierarchy in this fervidly Catholic country prefers silent ways of confronting scandal. Last month, after learning about “The Crime of Father Amaro,” several ...

LOS ANGELES – Retired Roman Catholic Cardinal Roger Mahony defended his tattered legacy Friday in a sharply worded letter to his successor, one day after Archbishop Jose Gomez stripped him of ...

For the first time since the end of the Civil War in 1939, Spain's Roman Catholic hierarchy has issued a joint pastoral letter to the faithful. The 38-page letter, redefining the relations ...

The death of Sister Sheila Walsh, believed to have been the first Roman Catholic nun in the nation to be a full-time registered lobbyist, reminded me of how many other activist nuns have ...

As its price for supporting federal aid to education, the U.S. Roman Catholic hierarchy demands low-cost loans to parochial schools. The nation’s first Catholic President refuses, and thus far ...

NCR Connections: Vulnerability, properly understood, is precisely what members of the Roman Catholic hierarchy need to embrace as a strength, argues Fr. James Keenan.