Candidates for the seminary should not be disqualified based on sexual orientation, according to new church guidelines in ...

Harfouch performed his Concerto for Peace in front of an audience that included archbishops, cultural dignitaries, and ...

On Jan. 10, 1984, the United States established full diplomatic relations with the Vatican for the first time in 116 years.

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

The appointment marks a major step in Pope Francis’ aim to give women more leadership roles in governing the church.

Sister Simona Brambilla was appointed as the prefect of a Vatican office that oversees religious orders, but she may not be ...

Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to lead a major Vatican department, appointing an Italian sister to take charge ...

McElroy, known for a pastoral approach to migrants and the LGBTQ+ community, will lead an archdiocese still bruised by a ...

A new tour for Jubilee 2025 of the Vatican Gardens at the pope’s summer palace in Castel Gandolfo aims to bring Pope Francis’ ...

A new document by the Italian bishops’ conference states that being openly gay no longer bars candidates from discerning the ...

The Vatican has approved new guidelines from Italian bishops that allow gay men to enter seminaries as long as they abstain from sex, in an unexpected adjustment to how the global Catholic Church ...