Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to lead a major Vatican department, appointing an Italian sister to take charge ...

The office is one of the most important in the Vatican, overseeing all religious orders under the Catholic church.

ROME — Pope Francis on Monday named Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego as the archbishop of Washington, tapping one of his ...

ROME — Pope Francis wrapped up a busy Christmas season on Monday by calling for the faithful to promote a culture of welcome ...

Ricky Gervais shared jokes he would have told if hosting the 2025 Golden Globes, targeting the Vatican, Justin Timberlake, ...

The 2024 National Eucharistic Congress was a capstone event during the third year of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ initiative to renew faith in the Eucharistic Lord. The five-day congress ...

I praise God for it because it helped to form me and shape me to be the bishop that I am,” he said of his time in the Diocese of Belleville.

Pope Francis in July appointed the then bishop of the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana ...

In the closing months of 2024, it was for America, as President Ronald Reagan said sixty years earlier, “a time for choosing.

Visitor numbers to Rome are expected to double to about 60 million during the year — on the theme “ Pilgrims of Hope” — and ...

In an eventful year for life issues, advocates and opponents alike wrestled with outcomes, each other, governments, public ...