An Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, will become prefect of the department responsible for all the Catholic Church’s ...

Pope Francis has appointed the Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, to head one of the Vatican's dicasteries, making her the ...

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

Pope Francis on Monday named Sister Simona Brambilla the first female prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated ...

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

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

Stapleton, a recent graduate of Franciscan University, a Catholic college in Ohio, will be among the less than 1 percent of nuns in the United States today who are 30 or younger. That number has ...

The NCAA allows biological men who identify as transgender women to participate in women-only sports competitions if they ...

President Joe Biden awarded gay marriage and abortion activists with Presidential Citizens Medals Thursday. Mary Bonauto, an ...

Catholic news organization, comprised of television, radio, print and digital media outlets, dedicated to reporting the ...

But as Zoey Stapleton, 24, walked down a darkened hiking trail, steps behind her parents, she counted back from three and ...