The appointment marks a major step in Pope Francis’ aim to give women more leadership roles in governing the church.

Italian nun Sister Simona Brambilla is the new prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of ...

ROME — (AP) — Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister ...

The film looks at the backstabbing intrigue that undermines elections even among the holiest constituents — such as Catholic ...

Pope Francis broke one of the Vatican’s “stained-glass ceilings” on Monday by appointing an Italian sister as the prefect of ...

To pursue their ambitious project to build a ‘21st-century abbey’ using the ancestral skills of stonecutters, the Benedictine ...

If you walk into a church right now, you are almost guaranteed to see other people. It’s the busiest time of the year for ...

The intimate Mass led by Pope Francis marked a historic moment — the first opening of a jubilee Holy Door within a prison.

An Italian artist has created this intricate nativity scene for the Our Lady and the English Martyrs Catholic Church in Cambridge, in the style of the famous street of cribs in Naples. Francesco ...

Pope Francis will open the Holy Year of the Catholic Church, a time when believers can gain forgiveness of their sins through ...

Pope Francis will open the Holy Year of the Catholic Church ... decorations in the small town in the West Bank and the lighting of a Christmas tree in front of the Church of the Nativity are ...