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

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

Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona ...

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

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 ...

The Italian ... Catholic faithful. Writing in the Catholic daily La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, Luisella Scrosati called the planned events a “defeat not only of the moral doctrine of the Church ...

ROME – Despite Catholicism’s broad reputation for being pro-migrant, especially in the Pope Francis era, in one northern Italian town the church has ... with a small stove before eventually ...

John Last John Last History Correspondent Every year in mid-November, the small northern town of Mirano ... of the most beloved saints in the Catholic Church, particularly in Europe, and yet ...

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

The Feast of the Seven Fishes — in Italian “La Vigilia,” which ... The Feast of the Seven Fishes tradition is also tied to the Catholic Church’s practice of not eating meat during certain ...