Dr Echezona Obiagbaosogu, a former Catholic priest of 17 years, has resigned from his priesthood to embrace the African ...

Pope Francis has named the first woman to head a major Vatican office. He is appointing Sister Simona Brambilla, an Italian ...

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 ...

Behind Westminster Abbey and through the back of Dean’s Yard lies a warren of side streets housing all manner of religious ...

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

The unusual decision to has sparked discussion about the intersection of traditional Church hierarchy and Pope Francis’ ...

Pope Francis has appointed Consolata Missionary Sister Simona Brambilla to be the first woman to lead a Vatican dicastery, ...

Without the H-2A visa program, many growers say they couldn't field work crews. If the system ends, 'we'd lose the harvest.' ...

Stapleton, a recent graduate of Franciscan University, a Catholic college in Ohio, will be among the less than 1 percent of nuns in the United States today who are 30 or younger. That number has ...

The time: summer of 2000. The furniture: neon and inflatable. The place: Wagga Wagga, teen pregnancy capital of Australia.