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

Pope Francis warned Wednesday against a "chauvinistic mentality" in the Catholic Church, as he promoted a nun to head the executive administration of the tiny Vatican City state.

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

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

The Pope has made advocacy for migrants a key part of his papacy, insisting they should be welcomed and integrated into ...

Pope Francis waves during the Angelus ... now 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 who ...

Sister Mary Antona Ebo was the only Black Catholic nun who marched with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, ...

"This is exactly what the Pope does not do." Francis, leader of the 1.4-billion-member Roman Catholic Church, has recently been more outspoken about Israel's military campaign against Palestinian ...

Francis, leader of the 1.4 billion-member Catholic Church since 2013, has used unusually forceful language in criticizing Trump in recent years. The pope's congratulatory note comes a day after ...

Pope Francis has slammed President-elect Donald ... U.S.-Mexico border drew a notable response from the head of the Catholic Church. After celebrating Mass near the border, the Pope remarked ...

The pope, who took over as head of the Catholic Church in 2013, suffers recurring health issues, from pain in his knee and hip to various recent episodes of bronchitis, and has relied on a wheelchair ...

This is not the way to solve things,” Francis said during the Sunday ... During the interview, the Pope also said he was appointing a nun, Sister Raffaella Petrini, as president of the ...