Observers say progressive new archbishop of Washington is expected to speak out for immigrants, LGBTQ persons and the ...

Pope Francis is moving the head of San Diego’s Roman Catholic Diocese to Washington, D.C., placing a prominent ally, as well ...

New Hampshire's attorney general is signing off on the sale of Manchester's Catholic Medical Center to an out-of-state for-profit company.

Pope Francis named Cardinal Robert McElroy as the eighth Archbishop of Washington, DC, succeeding Cardinal Wilton Gregory.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said 'there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United ...

Pope Francis this week made the novel decision to appoint the first-ever woman as prefect of a Vatican department, naming ...

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

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

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

Pope Francis has appointed Sister Simona Brambilla to lead a Vatican department, naming the first woman head of the office that oversees the world's Catholic religious orders and congregations.

Pope Francis has named a nun to head a prominent office at the Vatican, the first time a woman has held that position and the ...