Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona ...

In an amusing branding move, the Vatican debuted an anime-style cartoon mascot named Luce to mixed reactions online.

Pope Francis is moving the head of San Diego’s Roman Catholic Diocese to Washington, D.C., placing a prominent ally, as well as a supporter of migrant and LGBTQ communities, in the nation’s capital as ...

The Vatican announced Monday that Pope Francis appointed Cardinal McElroy, 70, as archbishop of Washington, a high-profile see that includes about 667,000 Catholics in the District of Columbia and ...

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

Pope Francis named Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego, a San Francisco native, as the archbishop of Washington, tapping one of his most progressively like-minded allies to head the Catholic Church ...

Many times in my life I have encountered nuns with a vinegar face, and this is not friendly," the pontiff recently remarked ...

The appointment of Robert W. McElroy is a signal of the pope’s priorities, two weeks before Donald J. Trump’s term begins.

Pope Francis has appointed San Diego’s Cardinal Robert W. McElroy—seen in Rome as one of the intellectual heavyweights in the ...

When Catholics come to Rome for the Holy Year, their journey should have the specific goal of encountering and listening to ...

Pope Francis taps one of most outspoken and progressive-leaning U.S. Catholic leaders to Washington, D.C. ahead of Trump term ...