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

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

Sister Simona Brambilla has been named prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic ...

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

More pardons, measures to prevent homegrown political extremism, and more military aid for Israel are among the plans that ...

Pope Francis appointed on Monday an Italian nun as prefect of the Vatican's department responsible for all the Catholic ...

The first international commercial flight since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad landed Tuesday at the ...

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

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

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