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 ...

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

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

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

Pope Francis taps one of most outspoken and progressive-leaning U.S. Catholic leaders to Washington, D.C. ahead of Trump term ...

The Vatican has detailed how to obtain plenary indulgences — removing temporal punishment for sin through Christ’s merits — ...

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.

(OSV News) -- Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of San Diego has been appointed the next archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington ...

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

Jimmy Carter’s funeral will be held on January 9 at the Washington National Cathedral, where President Joe Biden will give a ...

Police in Las Vegas say they are exploring “strange similarities” between the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck and the attack ...

Sister Simona Brambilla was appointed as the prefect of a Vatican office that oversees religious orders, but she may not be ...