A new survey indicates that many Catholics in Latin America and the U.S. favor allowing women to become priests, with a number also supporting marriage for priests, birth control, same-sex marriage ...

Sworn to secrecy about their work, 50-odd members of Pope Paul’s advisory commission on birth control met last week for three days of discussion at Rome’s Spanish College. Their job is to prepare a ...

The archbishop and auxiliary bishop are hoping these entreaties move President Barack Obama to reverse a mandate that even health care plans in Catholic-affiliated institutions fund birth control as ...

The Vatican’s timing was ironic. While Roman Catholic bishops in the U.S. were trying to revive their moral and political clout last week by battling President Obama over contraception coverage and ...

The Obama administration and its allies, including some Catholic groups, reject those assertions and say a proposed compromise to the mandate effectively bypasses any entanglement in birth control ...

The Affordable Care Act requires that most health plans offer birth control to women. Around the country, Catholic employers have been arguing in court that having anything to do with insurance ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Regarding "Bishops press for birth control exemption to have a wider reach" (Feb. 8): Cardinal Timothy Dolan, president of the ...

BOSTON (Reuters Life!) - Some 98 percent of sexually active Catholic women in the United States have used contraceptive methods banned by the church, research published on Wednesday showed. A new ...

Some decades ago a Pope named "Paul" issued a controversial paper on what kind of birth control Catholic couples are allowed to practice. It's OK to limit the number of children a couple has, the Pope ...