"Each time a pope takes ill, the winds of a conclave always feel as if they are blowing," Francis writes in his new memoir, referring to centuries-old tradition of cardinals gathering in the pope's ...
Pope Francis has baptised 21 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday under the ceiling frescoed by Michelangelo, in what has ...
Sister Simona Brambilla was appointed as the prefect of a Vatican office that oversees religious orders, but she may not be ...
The appointment marks a major step in Pope Francis’ aim to give women more leadership roles in governing the church.
VATICAN CITY -- VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis warned that bullying in schools prepares students for war rather than peace, ...
Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to lead a major Vatican department, appointing an Italian sister to take charge ...
ROME— Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman ... the first-ever female secretary general of the Vatican City State, responsible for the territory’s health care system, police force ...
Pope Francis told a group of children receiving treatment for cancer in Poland they are “witnesses of hope” to those around ...
Warning of “the increasingly concrete threat of a world war,” Pope Francis called for “the diplomacy of hope” in his address ...
President Joe Biden awarded Pope Francis the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, on Saturday ...