KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Christ the King Independent Catholic Church in Kansas City, Missouri's Westside practices Catholicism and opens its doors to LGBTQ+ and divorced Kansas Citians. Father Taylor Tracy ...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II, cracking down on what he considers serious abuses in his flock, issued a stern reminder Thursday that divorced Roman Catholics who remarry cannot receive communion.

(VATICAN CITY) — An update from the Vatican on gay, divorced, and remarried Catholics. On Saturday, a weeks-long assembly between nearly 300 bishops, known as a synod, ended with the Catholic Church ...

People across the world are reflecting on how Pope Francis changed their lives, including those who have previously been divorced. In the Catholic Church, if you’re divorced, the first marriage must ...

Bette Huckabee hopes the Catholic Church follows Pope Francis' heart and shows "mercy" toward divorced Catholics. In the eyes of the church, a Catholic who divorces and remarries outside the church ...

I was 7 years old when my parents divorced. If they sat down together to share the news with us, I don’t remember the conversation. Compared with the aftermath of many divorces, my family was ...

A rift has seemingly opened between two cardinals with significant Vatican influence, as the head of the pope's Council of Cardinals has suggested that the Vatican's doctrinal czar needs to be more ...

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn — the archbishop of Vienna, the chief editor of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and a Church leader who was considered a papabile during the 2013 conclave that ...

NEW YORK -- Pope Francis' call Wednesday for a church of "open doors" that welcomes divorced Catholics prompted speculation over whether he was signaling support for easing the ban on Communion for ...

Pope Francis has often expressed compassion for divorced Catholics who have remarried and feel cast off from the communion of believers who receive the holy Eucharist. In his book On Heaven and Earth ...