Italian nun Sister Simona Brambilla will be responsible for every religious order, from Jesuit and Franciscan priests to the ...

But if the profiles of the U.S. cardinals are any guide, these are as tendentious as the list of papabili ... Reputedly going over the heads of his Vatican advisers, Francis appointed Cupich ...

Another Italian is the oldest cardinal: Angelo Acerbi, a 99-year-old retired Vatican diplomat. He is the only one among the 21 new cardinals to be older than 80 and thus ineligible to vote in a ...

Most of them were killed during the commission of a robbery, but several obviously were targeted for the church work they did ...

Cardinal Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi, Archbishop of Tokyo, Japan, left, is greeted by fellow cardinals after being elevated by Pope Francis during a solemn Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican ...

The Vatican on Monday assigned a bishop from California to lead the Archdiocese of Washington and its over half-million catholic parishioners as the region, and the nation prepares for a political ...

Pope Francis this week made the novel decision to appoint the first-ever woman as prefect of a Vatican department, naming ...