Pope Francis warned Wednesday against a "chauvinistic mentality" in the Catholic Church, as he promoted a nun to head the ...

Pope Francis will install Franciscan nun Raffaella Petrini as head of the General Secretariat of the Government of the State ...

Less gossip, more gospel. Pope Francis urged a group of nuns with “vinegar faces” to steer clear of gossiping and not to speak with “the Devil” in an off-the-cuff rant. His Holiness, 88, spoke with ...

I won’t spoil it, but in a scene towards the end a cluster of young women – nuns – burst out into the sunlight, their ...

Italian nun Sister Simona Brambilla is the new prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of ...

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

“Many times in my life I have encountered nuns with ... into the Catholic Church but not necessarily seminaries. The alleged incident followed an earlier accusation that Francis said a slur ...

Pope Francis has made history by naming an Italian nun as the first woman to head a prominent Vatican department.

Since the beginning of his pontificate, Pope Francis has appointed around 20 women to positions of responsibility in the ...

Pope Francis is headed to Asia for what is one of the longest foreign trips any head of the Catholic Church has ever embarked on. The pontiff will engage in interfaith dialogues with other ...

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

ROME — Pope Francis on Monday named the first ... responsible for the women who do much of the church's work — the world's 600,000 Catholic nuns — as well as the 129,000 Catholic priests ...