Pope Francis has said he wants to give women greater leadership roles in the Roman Catholic Church. If he really wants to ...

Women religious are meant to be serving the poor, marginalized or vulnerable in society, not be working as servants to ...

In a new interview Pope Francis announced that after recently appointing the first-ever woman prefect of a Vatican department ...

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

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

Pope Francis has appointed the Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, to head one of the Vatican's dicasteries, making her the first female prefect in the Catholic Church's history. The Vatican's press ...

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

If this is true it is a disgrace because it makes the poor unfortunate who have nothing pay the price of imbalance. This is ...

ROME—Pope Francis on January 6 named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, to become prefect of the department responsible for all the ...

Sister Raffaella Petrini, secretary-general of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State will take office in March ...

In an interview on Italian television Jan. 19, the pope said that if Trump carries out his threat “it will be a disgrace, ...