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

An Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, will become prefect of the department responsible for all the Catholic Church’s ...

McElroy, known for a pastoral approach to migrants and the LGBTQ+ community, will take over an archdiocese still bruised by a ...

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

Pope Francis appointed Cardinal Robert McElroy as Archbishop of Washington. This choice carries undeniable political weight, ...

Pope Francis kicked off the 2025 Holy Year on Tuesday, inaugurating a celebration of the Catholic Church that is expected to ...

Pope Francis has declared 2025 to be a Jubilee year for the Catholic Church. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Claire Giangravé from the Religion News Service about the tradition.

While the Vatican’s report offered no definitive ... expected to bring many young people to the Eternal City in 2025 for the Catholic Church’s Jubilee of Hope. On April 15, 2019, the historic ...

The iconic sculpture’s journey from the Vatican to the 1964 World’s Fair in New York was a monumental feat of faith and ...

Cardinal Angelo Amato, the former prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the ... refinement and generosity for the Gospel and the Church.” The pope’s message, sent to Father Stefano ...

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