Sister Simona Brambilla, 60, of Italy will be prefect of the Dicastery for Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

Pope Francis is moving the head of San Diego’s Roman Catholic Diocese to Washington, D.C., placing a prominent ally, as well as a supporter of migrant and LGBTQ communities, in the nation’s capital as ...

The promotion comes on Jan. 6, two weeks before Donald Trump is inaugurated. Robert McElroy, 70, has criticized Trump's ...

President Joe Biden on Monday met with Venezuela's opposition leader ahead of this week's inauguration of President Nicolas ...

Pope Francis has named the first woman to head a major Vatican office. ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Monday named the first ...

Pope Francis had a message for nuns, convey joy while refraining from gossip, he said as he addressed a gathering of nuns ...

U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein the Israeli Army has started to withdraw from the western sector of south Lebanon and will continue ...

Just as the star over Bethlehem called to and welcomed everyone to encounter the newborn Jesus, God today calls on the ...

When Catholics come to Rome for the Holy Year, their journey should have the specific goal of encountering and listening to ...

Sister Simona Brambilla will head the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

Pope Francis on Monday appointed a new cardinal with a liberal track record to head the archdiocese of Washington, D.C.