"Dear Pope Francis, your words and actions regarding the State of Israel are not just disappointing but represent a ...

Pope Francis told ambassadors accredited to the Holy See on Thursday that he wasn’t up to delivering his annual foreign ...

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

Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus at Harvard Law School, and the author most recently of ...

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

Pope Francis has denounced the “scourge” of child labor and other abuses suffered by children, saying anyone who harms or ...

Pope Francis broke one of the Vatican’s “stained-glass ceilings” on Monday by appointing an Italian sister as the prefect of ...

Pope Francis offered that reminder on Monday as he presided at Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on the feast of the Epiphany. In his homily, the Holy Father focused his remarks on three characteristics of ...

I am also a man of faith, of Jewish faith, and as such, could not comprehend the [nativity] Scene as I saw it in the media.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — After receiving backlash from Jewish groups, the Vatican chose to not put the keffiyeh back in its ...

In a troubled world, the birth of Christ reveals God's unwavering determination to draw all people to himself and illuminate ...