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

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 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 ...

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

Pope John Paul II, who helped Ronald Reagan topple the Soviet Union, will go down in history as the anti-communist pope.

I thought I was done with this subject for a while. Two weeks ago, I wrote a scathing column denouncing Pope Francis for swaddling the Vatican's baby Jesus figure in a keffiyeh. Perhaps, I speculated, ...

I grew up in Israel, which is modern day Judea, which is where Mary grew up. So I feel very, very comfortable portraying her.

A stature of the Baby Jesus has returned to the Vatican's 'presepe', or Nativity Scene, in the Saint Paul VI Hall, but not ...