In thinking about the year we’ve just witnessed, there was no shortage of drama, and therefore plenty of candidates for its ...

During the Holy Year 2025, the international community should strive "to overcome the logic of confrontation and embrace ...

In his annual speech to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See, Pope Francis condemned what he said was a universal ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — After receiving backlash from Jewish groups, the Vatican chose to not put the keffiyeh back in its ...

VATICAN— Pope Francis has named for the first time a woman, Sister Simona Brambilla, to head a dicastery of the Roman Curia, ...

I mean stories which were important but which didn’t generate a lot of buzz, either in the mainstream media or the ...

ROME--Pope Francis on ... the nomination of Chinese bishops is working. Bishop Peter Wu Yishun was consecrated bishop of Minbei in Fujian in southeast China, the Vatican said in a statement.

Pope Francis announced that a 59-year-old Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, would serve as prefect for one of the most important offices in the Vatican ... the Synod of Bishops' Office.

Pope Francis has named Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego as the archbishop of Washington, D.C. He is tapping one of his ...

Pope Francis told ambassadors accredited to the Holy See on Thursday that he wasn’t up to delivering his annual foreign ...

2 in the Vatican development office while several women have been appointed to under-secretary positions, including the French nun, Sister Nathalie Becquart, in the synod of bishops' office. Pope ...

The life of the church in 2024 was defined as much by what did not happen, as by what did. The most important thing that did ...