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

Sister Simona Brambilla, 60, of Italy will be prefect of the Dicastery for Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

In thinking about the year we’ve just witnessed, there was no shortage of drama, and therefore plenty of candidates for its ...

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

Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Argentina, Francis is the first Jesuit pope in papal history. O'Donnell interviewed him at Casa Santa Marta, the Vatican guest house where he has lived since his ...

The interview began with a discussion of the church's first World Children's Day, when in late May, Pope Francis welcomed tens of thousands of young people to the Vatican, including refugees of war.

The security mission of Swiss Guard extends to the Pope's apostolic travels, the pontifical palace of Castel Gandolfo, and ...

Remembered as a humble leader and a defender of the most vulnerable, especially unborn children, St. John Paul II described ...

ROME – As pontiffs age or get sick, two developments are as inevitable as the rising and the setting of the sun: First, some people will begin to speculate about the next pope, and second ...

The story: Following the unexpected death of the pope, it falls on Cardinal Lawrence ... thriller that happens to take place at the Vatican, similar to how some horror movies use exorcism as ...