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

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

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

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

Over 545,000 pilgrims have crossed the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica, marking a strong start to Pope Francis's Holy Year ...

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 denounced the “scourge” of child labor and other abuses suffered by children, saying anyone who harms or ...

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