Sister Raffaella Petrini will become the first woman to lead the Vatican City State governorate when she takes office March 1 ...

It is unclear how long Pope Francis will stay in hospital, according to a Holy See spokesperson, after he was admitted on ...

ROME (AP) — Another woman is taking over a top management job in the Vatican: Sister Raffaella Petrini, an Italian nun, was ...

The head of Vatican City had been unwell for a while now, suffering from bronchitis, whose symptoms are more complicated in ...

Pope Francis was being treated in a hospital in Rome for bronchitis and to have medical examinations, the Vatican said Friday, the latest in a string of ailments that have raised concerns about the 88 ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has added the feast day of St. Teresa of Kolkata, a “beacon of hope” and an example of ...

Thanking members of the military and the police for their service, Pope Francis asked them to be on guard against seeing ...

A handout picture provided by the Vatican Media shows Pope Francis meeting ... reiterating a statement he had made previously: that the church is governed by the head and heart and “not with ...

The Vatican allows Catholic marriages to take place in the Chapel of the Choir in St. Peter’s Basilica and in the small city ...

Kennedy, the first Catholic President of the United States ... an alignment between post-World War II America and the church of Vatican II — at least from a sociological and cultural point ...

All three of the retiring or retired prelates tendered their resignations to the Vatican upon their 75th birthdays in ...