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 ...