September 8, 2025 (Kalamazoo, MI) — The Diocese of Kalamazoo has announced the release of its newly revised Policy for the Protection of Children and Youth. This policy replaces all previous editions and establishes updated safeguards, standards, and procedures for protecting children and youth across diocesan parishes, schools, and Catholic ministries.
A Vatican commission looking into the idea of allowing women to be ordained as deacons says the Catholic Church cannot ordain women, even at that level.
Speaking to journalists on his return flight from Beirut to Rome, Pope Leo XIV spoke about the Holy See’s global peacemaking efforts in Ukraine and the Middle East, as well as dialogue with the...