He is appointing Sister Simona Brambilla, an Italian nun, to become prefect of the Vatican department responsible for all the ...

On Tuesday the Vatican announced that after just two weeks since Pope Francis inaugurated the Jubilee of Hope on Christmas ...

Over half a million people have already passed through the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica since Pope Francis opened it on ...

Pope Francis broke one of the Vatican’s “stained-glass ceilings” on Monday by appointing an Italian sister as the prefect of ...

More than half a million pilgrims crossed the threshold of the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica in the first two weeks after ...

More than half a million people passed through the Holy Door at St Peter's in the first two weeks since Pope Francis launched ...

Sister Simona Brambilla was appointed as the prefect of a Vatican office that oversees religious orders, but she may not be ...

Sister Simona Brambilla will head the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

Pope Francis has declared 2025 to be a Jubilee year for the Catholic Church. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Claire Giangravé from the Religion News Service about the tradition.

Biden accepted Francis' invitation to visit the Vatican during a Thursday phone call with the pope, the White House said in a statement. The two men have met several times. White House press ...

The iconic sculpture’s journey from the Vatican to the 1964 World’s Fair in New York was a monumental feat of faith and ...