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

The Vatican says Pope Francis slept well during a quiet first night in the hospital after being admitted with a respiratory ...

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Pope Francis issued a major rebuke Tuesday to the Trump administration’s plans for mass deportations of migrants , warning ...

Pope Francis has named a new head of the Archdiocese of Detroit, a bishop from Arizona who was introduced to the community ...

The debate on whether the death penalty deters and lowers rates of crime is a long-simmering one, with both sides variously ...

Nearly 30,000 soldiers and police officers flocked to Rome February 8-9 for the Jubilee of the Armed Forces, the second major ...

Synodality” is a major theme of the Francis pontificate, but what does “Synodality” actually mean – and does it have staying ...