By choosing Cardinal Robert McElroy to lead the Archdiocese of Washington, the pope is sending a message to the incoming ...

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

In what would have been his last overseas trip as president, Joe Biden had been set to depart for Italy Thursday night to ...

When you meet a guy, for example, like Francis of Assisi. Genius or crackpot? Both. Sensuous embracer of life or ...

Comedian Jasper Carrott has said a sell-out concert in memory of footballer Trevor Francis would be "a proper send-off" for ...

Cardinal Walter McElroy of San Diego is named by Pope Francis to replace the retiring Cardinal Wilton Gregory leading the ...

Pope Francis on Monday named Sister Simona Brambilla the first female prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated ...

The Catholic Church teaches that hope is one of the three theological virtues — along with faith and charity — which God ...

Pope Francis declared in a papal address that "fake news" has been a major cause of societal unrest that has led to the ...

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Pope Francis told a group of children receiving treatment for cancer in Poland they are “witnesses of hope” to those around ...