The Vatican has given its blessing to a document suggesting that those with same-sex attraction can pursue the priesthood in ...

All three had been serving as consultors of the dicastery and become the first non-bishops to join the more than 40 cardinal- ...

Pope Francis broke one of the Vatican’s “stained-glass ceilings” on Monday by appointing an Italian sister as the prefect of ...

Italian nun Sister Simona Brambilla is the new prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of ...

Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona ...

Pope Francis on Monday named Sister Simona Brambilla the first female prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated ...

The appointment of both a nun as prefect and a cardinal as pro-prefect of a Vatican dicastery marks an unprecedented ...

Holy See and Italian authorities are collaborating to welcome an estimated 30 million people expected to come to Rome ...

The Dicastery of Culture and Education (DCE) recently held a Congress, “The Future of Theology: Legacy and Envisioning,” at ...

The appointment marks a major step in Pope Francis’ aim to give women more leadership roles in governing the church.

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