Pope Francis has fallen and hurt his right arm. It's the second time in a month that Francis has injured himself after an ...

This coming Advent, Catholics throughout the English-speaking world will begin using a new translation for the prayers that we say in the Mass. This new, third edition of the Roman Missal is the ...

He is appointing Sister Simona Brambilla, an Italian nun, to become prefect of the Vatican department responsible for all the ...

The Vatican announced Monday that Pope Francis appointed Cardinal McElroy, 70, as archbishop of Washington, a high-profile ...

VATICAN, Holy See — Pope Francis will conduct ... and then celebrate a Christmas Eve mass that evening. On Christmas Day the 25th, he will lead another mass and deliver his "Urbi et Orbi ...

Rey announced he will celebrate a Mass of Thanksgiving in the diocese on Feb. 1. Hannah Brockhaus is Catholic News Agency’s senior Vatican correspondent. After growing up in Omaha, Nebraska ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis will conduct this Sunday's Angelus prayer remotely and not from a window in the Vatican because he has come down with a cold, his press office said Saturday. "Due to the ...

Pope Francis told Vatican bureaucrats on Saturday to stop speaking ill of one another, as he once again used his annual Christmas greetings to admonish the backstabbing and gossiping among his ...

Israeli authorities allowed a rare Gaza visit by the leader of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, for the Mass while the ever-present buzz of Israeli drones ...

Pope Francis presides over Christmas Eve Mass at the Vatican, beginning with the opening of the Holy Door. #popefrancis #christmas #christmaseve #vatican #news ...

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