It sounds like the opening line of a joke: What happens when the pope gets his hands on two bottles of Kentucky bourbon? But it actually occurred and the punch line ...

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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What it did not find time to do was to stop the abuse of children by Catholic priests. A church founded by a man who ...

The U.S. border czar has pushed back against Pope Francis' criticism of the U.S. mass deportation of migrants plan. Tom Homan ...

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 ...