Sister Simona Brambilla was appointed as the prefect of a Vatican office that oversees religious orders, but she may not be ...

McElroy, known for a pastoral approach to migrants and the LGBTQ+ community, will lead an archdiocese still bruised by a ...

Pope Francis has appointed Cardinal Robert McElroy, a vocal defender of migrants and critic of Donald Trump’s first ...

Sister Simona Brambilla, 60, of Italy will be prefect of the Dicastery for Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

French Bishop Dominique Rey said he was recently informed by the nuncio, the pope’s ambassador in France, that Pope Francis ...

Pope Francis has appointed Sister Simona Brambilla to lead a Vatican department, naming the first woman head of the office ...

Pope Francis has named a nun to head a prominent office at the Vatican, the first time a woman has held that position and the ...

Pope Francis appointed on Monday an Italian nun as prefect of the Vatican's department responsible for all the Catholic ...

The office is one of the most important in the Vatican, overseeing all religious orders under the Catholic church.

Sister Simona Brambilla has been named prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic ...

Pope Francis has named Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego as the archbishop of Washington, D.C. He is tapping one of his ...