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

Sister Brambilla, who trained as a nurse before entering religious life, was a missionary in Mozambique in the late 1990s.

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

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

The pope, who turned 88 Dec. 17, mostly uses a wheelchair and presides over rather than concelebrates most public liturgies.

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

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

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 ...

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

The office is one of the most important in the Vatican, overseeing all religious orders under the Catholic church.

In his Jan. 9 speech, the pope lamented “the continuous creation and spread of fake news,” which he said, “distorts facts but ...

Since Cardinal Robert W. McElroy's Jan. 6 appointment to the Archdiocese of Washington, church watchers have interpreted the ...