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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The rate of married couples filing for divorce has begun to trend downward in recent years, but the rate of “gray divorce” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But change could be on the horizon. In 2024, the Philippines’ House of Representatives—the lower chamber of the legislature—passed a bill that aimed to institutionalize absolute divorce, which ...

The bishops of the Philippines this week are urging their fellow citizens to move slowly and carefully as the country considers legalizing civil divorce for the first time in its history. The country ...

The length of the average American marriage is 8.8 years, and 50 percent of all American marriages will end in divorce. Suffering through a divorce and resultant estrangements, I wondered would my ...