Pope Francis has said he wants to give women greater leadership roles in the Roman Catholic Church. If he really wants to make good on that vow, writes Rich Barlow, he should reconsider Catholicism’s ...

Pell also warned that as the newest crop of young clergy and seminarians was, in the main ... church leader. Pope Francis arrives to celebrate the Jubilee audience in the Paul VI hall at the ...

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Colleen Dulle and Gerard ... to evangelization between Pope Francis, who calls the church to go outside its doors and seek those on the peripheries, and ...

Representing Pope Francis, the top Vatican diplomat, Cardinal Pietro Parolin inaugurated and consecrated the Church of the Baptism of the Lord at Al-Maghtas, known in the Bible as Bethany Beyond ...

The appointment marks a major step in Francis’ aim to give women more leadership roles in governing the church ... police force and main source of revenue, the Vatican Museums, which are ...