Pope Francis has appointed Sister Simona Brambilla to lead a Vatican department, naming the first woman head of the office ...

French Bishop Dominique Rey said he was recently informed by the nuncio, the pope’s ambassador in France, that Pope Francis ...

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

The appointment of both a nun as prefect and a cardinal as pro-prefect of a Vatican dicastery marks an unprecedented ...

Archbishop of Washington Cardinal Robert McElroy's remarks are at odds with the incoming Trump administration's mass deportation policy.

An Emboldened Trump Talks of Taking Greenland and Panama Canal by Force In a rambling news conference from his private Florida club, President-elect Trump refused to rule out using military force ...