Annone, a majestic 4-year-old albino elephant from India, five centuries ago was the pet of Pope Leo X. The white pachyderm ...

More than half a million pilgrims crossed the threshold of the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica in the first two weeks after ...

Italian nun Sister Simona Brambilla is the new prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of ...

Francis is the first pope from the Americas ... Instead of a palace above St. Peter's Square, he chose the Vatican guest house Casa Santa Marta as his home. We met him there under a painting ...

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

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

Holy See and Italian authorities are collaborating to welcome an estimated 30 million people expected to come to Rome ...

The star,” Pope Francis said, “speaks to us of that unique light that can show to all people the way to salvation and ...

From his wheelchair, Francis knocked a few times and the great Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica swung open ... built for the ...