Much as he wants the Church to acknowledge the situation of priests who have fathered children, Vincent Doyle isn’t sure whether he would like to see a canon-law provision that directly addresses it.

CanonLaw.Ninja will be able to continue its operations with a different translation owned by the Canon Law Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Father Paul Hedman is the priest behind CanonLaw.Ninja.

Now it is formally illegal to ordain a woman as a deacon. Or as a priest. Or as a bishop. On June 1, Pope Francis promulgated revisions to the Code of Canon Law detailing crimes and punishments. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 5—CONCORD — A federal judge has allowed a high-ranking Catholic priest in New Hampshire to add a canon lawyer from Wisconsin ...

If the prelates attending the Vatican's Synod of Bishops for the Amazon ask that Pope Francis allow the ordination of married men to address a lack of Catholic ministers across the nine-nation region, ...

DALLAS — Attorney David Finn confirmed to WFAA that the family of Fr. Patrick Koch – a former president and principal at Jesuit prep school in Dallas – has filed a cannon law appeal to the Catholic ...

The judge in an internal Catholic church trial says a man accusing a priest of sexual assault once changed his story. Monsignor Kevin Quirk, a canon lawyer now in West Virginia, testified Monday in ...

CONCORD — A federal judge has allowed a high-ranking Catholic priest in New Hampshire to add a canon lawyer from Wisconsin to his defamation case against a right-wing Catholic website. The canon ...