ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, to become prefect of the department responsible for all the ...

A nun, Sister Raffaella Petrini, now heads the governorate of Vatican City; another, Sister Simona Brambilla, has been appointed to lead the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and ...

Since the beginnings of Christianity, women have always been there, at the heart of the faith, in the shadows as well as in ...

The Vatican’s central number is public — and the sisters of the Pious Disciples of the Divine Master make sure all who call it get a real person, not the “press 1 for English, 2 for Latin” version of ...

Despite continued progress in his recovery from double pneumonia, Pope Francis will continue to remain in the hospital for the time being, his doctors announced today.

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Xaviere Missionary Sister Nathalie Becquart, a student in the Boston College ... a path of conversion and deepening to open new ways to better serve the Church.” Speaking to Vatican Media, Cardinal ...

Pope Francis has been diagnosed with pneumonia in both lungs and his latest laboratory tests and chest X-rays continue to reveal a "complex" medical picture, according to a Feb. 18 Vatican statement.

By Elisabetta Povoledo and Jason Horowitz Reporting from Rome and Vatican City The Roman Catholic world has been gripped by uncertainty as Pope Francis, 88, remains in a Rome hospital because of a ...

VATICAN CITY (AP ... “We never get a call that’s the same as the previous one,” said Sister Simona, who’s worked the switchboard for 15 years. Counseling or comfort Francis has ...

(Photo: YouTube screenshot/Vatican News) Pope Francis, 88, spent the night from February 22 to 23 “peacefully and at rest.” As it has done every morning since his hospitalization at Rome’s ...

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams' sister-in-law Falguni Pandya said she was shown a photo of the Maha Kumbh from the International Space Station.