Pope Francis has marked another milestone in his pontificate by appointing, for the first time in the history of the Catholic Church, a woman to head a Vatican dicastery.

Pope Francis on Friday welcomed a group of children and young people from the Italian Union of Blind and Partially Sighted People in the Vatican’s Clementine Hall, encouraging them to be pilgrims of hope during the 2025 Jubilee Year.

With the beginning of the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope, there are many questions the faithful may ask.

One of the most iconic is the Romea Strata, a historic road that has guided travelers from Central and Eastern Europe to Rome.

On Dec. 24 at 7 p.m., Pope Francis will inaugurate the Jubilee of Hope 2025 at St. Peter’s Basilica, where 30 million are expected to participate. Later, he will celebrate Christmas Mass.

As Christmas draws near: Pope Francis gifts a vehicle converted into a small mobile hospital to care for the inhabitants of Ukraine devastated by war.

On Dec. 15, the pope will visit the city of Ajaccio, the capital of the French island, to close a conference on popular religiosity in the Mediterranean

The DDF, the Vatican body responsible for questions of doctrinal orthodoxy in the Catholic Church, has a group of outside consultants. What is their role?

Among the new cardinals created by Pope Francis on Dec. 7, 44-year-old Cardinal Mykola Bychok, CSSR, stands out as the youngest cardinal. He leads the Eparchy of Sts. Peter and Paul for Ukrainian Catholics in Oceania.

Pope Francis on Nov. 9 appointed Father Roberto Pasolini, OFM Cap, as the new preacher of the Papal Household, replacing Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, 90, who held that position for 44 years.

Bishop Luis Marín de San Martín is one of the key figures of the Synod on Synodality. Pope Francis appointed him undersecretary of the event, which the Spanish prelate says he has experienced as “an offer of grace” and a call “to personal conversion.”

Pope Francis warned against “Coca-Cola spirituality” on Tuesday at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, shortly after the rector praised exiled Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez as a model of true Christian courage.

The congregation of Sister Clare Crockett, a young nun who died in 2016 during an earthquake in Ecuador, announced the beginning of her cause for beatification.

Pope Francis made a special “getaway” from the Vatican yesterday afternoon and met with a group of 200

Five new complaints of alleged abuse committed by Father Marko Rupnik have been presented to the Dicastery for

Two priests and cosmologists from the Vatican Observatory have made further progress in developing a new mathematical method

The Archdiocese of Quebec in Canada has announced that Pope Francis has appointed a retired judge to lead

The Vatican Press Office reported Feb. 15 that Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Cardinal José Luis Lacunza

On Sunday, Feb. 11, Pope Francis will raise to the altars the woman who will become Argentina’s first

Pope Francis contacted the president-elect of Argentina, Javier Milei, to congratulate him on his victory in Sunday’s second

Pope Francis has reportedly expressed fear that some Argentine friends were among the victims of the Hamas attack

Pope Francis has appointed the new under-secretary of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA)

This Sunday the Vatican published the apostolic exhortation C’est la confiance of Pope Francis, on trust in the

New Chief of Protocol of the Vatican