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 ...

Before her appointment to the governorate, Sister Petrini worked at the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples from ...

The Argentine pope was admitted to Rome's Gemelli hospital on Friday after a weeklong bout of bronchitis worsened.

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

Pope Francis was hospitalized on Friday as he suffers from an ongoing bout of bronchitis, the Vatican tells Fox News. He is also expected to undergo tests during his stay, according to a report.

Pope Francis, 88, was admitted Friday to the Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome again for bronchitis, a condition that gives no respite every winter to the pontiff, and which is the fourth time he has had to ...

So this week, on February 11, when the Vatican published a letter from the pope to US bishops warning that Trump’s mass ...

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

Pope Francis sends a letter to American Bishops that criticizes the President's immigration tactics while acknowledging the ...

Pope Francis’s letter poses an implicit question to the whole church in the United States: Will we subject our political ...

Not so Pope Francis this week. It was not a spokesman, but the Pope himself, and his letter was drafted in the form customary ...

Pope Francis has accepted Archbishop Dennis Schnurr's resignation and named Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Robert G. Casey as his replacement ...