The Jubilee audience on Feb 22, and a senior clergyman will celebrate mass on Feb 23. Read more at straitstimes.com.

ROME — Another woman is taking over a top management job in the Vatican : Sister Raffaella Petrini, an Italian nun, was named ...

Pope Francis, the 88-year-old pontiff, who has been suffering from a "complex" respiratory infection for more than a week, ...

never before have women been named to the top jobs of the Holy See Curia or Vatican City State administration. Catholic women have long complained of second-class status in an institution that ...

never before have women been named to the top jobs of the Holy See Curia or Vatican City State administration. Catholic women have long complained of second-class status in an institution that ...

ROME (AP) — The Vatican on Tuesday canceled papal audiences through the weekend and delegated others to cover for Pope Francis as the 88-year-old pope remained hospitalized with a multi-pronged ...

Pope Francis was admitted to Rome's Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic on Friday due to bronchitis, as reported by the Vatican City.

The unusual role of the Vatican bank The Institute for Religious Works, or IOR as it is known, is a peculiar institution, created in 1942 to help the church carry out its charitable mission while ...

Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Pope Francis had a "restful night" in a hospital and his bronchitis was improve, the Vatican said Saturday.

Doctors are tweaking their treatment of Pope Francis, the 88-year-old leader of the Catholic Church, as he battles a respiratory tract infection.