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

ROME — Another woman is taking over a top management job in the Vatican: Sister Raffaella Petrini, an Italian nun, was named Saturday as president of the Vatican City State, making her essentially the ...

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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis was being hospitalized Friday for the fourth time since he was elected pope in 2013, after he was diagnosed with bronchitis last week. Francis had part of one lung removed ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is to be hospitalized for medical examinations and to treat bronchitis, the Vatican says. Christianity is by far the largest faith in America, and Christian conservatives have ...

Pope Francis has been admitted to the hospital for medical examinations and to treat bronchitis, the Vatican announced.

Pope Francis has condemned Donald Trump’s immigration policies, even if the Vatican has strengthened penalties for ...

Francis took the remarkable step of addressing the U.S. migrant crackdown in a letter to U.S. bishops in which he appeared to ...

The U.N. human rights office on Monday described images of both emaciated Israeli hostages and Palestinian detainees released ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican's charity said Monday that U.S. plans to gut USAID were “reckless” and could kill millions, ...

The man tried to rip off the cloth, as well as kicking down antique candelabra worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Mobile phone footage circulating on social media showed a man standing on the altar under the towering Baldachin canopy.