Planning a trip to Italy this year? You’re likely going to have to consider your plans a bit more than in previous years, as this one’s special: it’s the Jubilee Year, a Roman Catholic religious event ...

Sister Raffaella Petrini will become the first woman to lead the Vatican City State governorate when she takes office March 1 ...

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

Pope Francis was hospitalized Friday after a weeklong bout of bronchitis worsened and was receiving drug therapy for a ...

Pope Francis, who was taken to hospital on Friday for treatment of bronchitis, is suffering from a respiratory infection but ...

We’d just spent 2 weeks traveling through Spain before taking a ridiculously cheap flight from Seville to Pisa for 9 euros ...

Many U.S. adults believe the federal government is overspending. But polling also shows many Americans, including Republicans ...

Pope Francis will go into the hospital in Rome for treatment for bronchitis and medical examinations, the Vatican said Friday ...

Pope Francis was being hospitalized Friday for the fourth time since he was elected pope in 2013, after he was diagnosed with ...

Thanking members of the military and the police for their service, Pope Francis asked them to be on guard against seeing ...

All three of the retiring or retired prelates tendered their resignations to the Vatican upon their 75th birthdays in ...

The U.S. border czar has pushed back against Pope Francis’ criticism of the U.S. mass deportation of migrants plan ...