Three young women in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have broken the glass ceiling and will soon become the assistant priests at temples in the state, breaking a long-standing male-only tradition, after duly completing their training to assume priesthood.

India: Three women break glass ceiling, to soon become temple priests in Tamil Nadu

A Cathedral in northern Spain on Friday (March 24) held a mass to recognise and apologise to victims of sexual abuse perpetrated in the diocese. The service held in Bilbao Cathedral was one of the first services of its kind in Spain.

Spain: Cathedral holds mass for victims of sex abuse by priests

The Catholic Jesuit order, of which Pope Francis is a member, has been rocked by claims a prominent priest abused several women, a case raising questions about how the Church sanctions offenders.

Catholic Jesuit order hit by priest abuse scandal

The National Space and Aeronautics Administration (NASA) is enlisting help of 24 theologians as part of its efforts to determine how different religions around the world would react to contact with aliens, reported Technotrendz.

NASA is hiring priests to prepare humans for contact with aliens

In a shocking development, an independent inquiry has found that sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests and other clergymen has had 216,000 victims between 1950 and 2020.

France: Inquiry reveals 216,000 cases of paedophilia by Catholic priests since 1950

The pandemic has left its mark on churches in Mexico and Colombia, with a no touching rule in place on Ash Wednesday (February 17). In pre-pandemic times priests would apply ash to the foreheads of faithful in the sign of a cross, on a day that marks the first day of Lent, a 40-day period of prayer and fasting for faithful.

No touching: Covid leaves its mark on Ash Wednesday in Latin America

Pope Francic changed the Catholic Church Law. According to the new law, women will now be allowed to perform certain tasks during mass.

Pope Francis allows women to serve at mass, but cannot be Priests

Little children are innocent and peppy, and this leads to creating of memories that we can always look back at and smile. In one such act of innocence, a little girl dressed in a white frock and a white mask gave a high-five to the priest during a ceremony.

Watch| Little girl gives high-five to priest who raised hand to bless her

Pope Francis, in one of the most significant decisions of his papacy, on February 12 dismissed a proposal to allow some married men to be ordained in the Amazon region to ease an acute scarcity of priests. The recommendation, put forward by Latin American bishops last year, had alarmed conservatives in the deeply polarised 1.3 billion-member Roman Catholic Church, who feared it could lead to a change in the centuries-old commitment to celibacy among priests.

Fineprint: Pope dismisses proposal to ordain married men as priests in Amazon

An Argentine court on Monday convicted two Roman Catholic priests and the former gardener of a church-run school for deaf students in the province of Mendoza on 28 counts of sexual abuse and corruption of minors.

Argentina: Two priests sentenced to more than 40 years in sex abuse case

An assembly of Roman Catholic bishops from the Amazon on Saturday proposed that married men in the remote area be allowed to be ordained priests, which could lead to a landmark change in the Church's centuries-old discipline of celibacy.

Vatican synod proposes ordaining married men as priests in the Amazon

Priests in robes and hard hats worshiped Saturday at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in the first Mass there since the French treasure was devastated by fire in April. The priests were joined by a handful of workers and other worshipers, also in hard hats. The group was limited to about 30 for security reasons, and the solemn ceremony in Paris was shown live by a Catholic channel via YouTube.

Worshiping in Hard Hats: Notre Dame Offers First Mass Since Blaze

Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of 12 prisoners on Thursday at a traditional service, telling them to shun any inmate hierarchy structure or law of the strongest and to help each other instead.

Help each other, pope tells prisoners at foot washing rite

Pope Francis admitted Tuesday that Catholic priests and bishops had sexually abused nuns, the latest scandal to rock the church. "There are some priests and also bishops who have done it," the pontiff said in response to a journalist's question on the abuse of nuns, speaking on the return flight from his trip to the United Arab Emirates.

Priests, bishops sexually abused nuns, Pope Francis admits publicly

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