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 on Tuesday opened the Holy Door of St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, marking the official beginning of the ...

Two attempts to assassinate Pope Francis when he made a historic visit to northern Iraq were foiled by British spies and police inside the country, Francis has revealed in his new autobiography.

Pope Francis attended a prayer service in ... The Pope adds that he asked a security official the following day what had happened to the would-be attackers. "The [official] replied laconically ...

Pope Francis has claimed a plot to ... and killed before they could reach their target. Francis wrote that the next day he asked an official what had happened to the two bombers, who "replied ...

British intelligence helped foil an assassination plot on Pope Francis, he has written in his ... The pope said he asked a security official the next day what had happened to the would-be bombers.

Pope Francis became the first Catholic pontiff to visit Mosul in the war-torn country three years ago, in most likely the riskiest foreign trip of his 11-year papacy. Writing in his upcoming ...

In 2024, Pope Francis will open “five sacred portals ... Christmas Eve for a never-before-performed ritual as false. The official website of the 2025 Jubilee describes the Holy Doors as ...

Security forces thwarted a pair of assassination attempts against Pope Francis — including a suicide bomber — during his March 2021 visit to Iraq, the pontiff shared in his new memoir.

Pope Francis was the target of a suicide bombing plot in Iraq in 2021 that was foiled with the help of British intelligence, the pontiff has revealed in his autobiography. To mark his 88th ...

ROME — Pope Francis turned 88 on Tuesday and marked the occasion with revelations that he almost didn’t make it. According to excerpts of his upcoming autobiography, suicide bombers had ...