The Vatican houses the central government of the Catholic Church and is also an independent city-state. The pope is both the ...

Pope Francis remained stable through the day on Sunday and no longer required the use of mechanical ventilation to breathe, ...

Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, LC, president of the Governorate of Vatican City State and president of the Pontifical ...

Raffaella Petrini has been appointed as the first female President of the Vatican City State becoming the governor of the ...

The Vatican announced on Tuesday that Francis had appointed Archbishop Emilio Nappa and layman Giuseppe Puglisi-Alibrandi to ...

The Vatican, though, made alternative plans for Ash Wednesday next week, making clear Francis still had a long road ahead.

ROME — Another woman is taking over a top management job in the Vatican : Sister Raffaella Petrini, an Italian nun, was named Saturday as president of the Vatican City State, making her essentially ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Vatican City Pope Francis has developed pneumonia ... Francis, who was admitted to a hospital in Rome on Friday, had initially been diagnosed with a ...

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis's condition was continuing ... the critical condition of the Argentine pope, who was admitted to Rome's Gemelli hospital on Feb 14. As pilgrims and other well-wishers ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis ... named a new archbishop for Vancouver and modified the law for the Vatican City State to create a new hierarchy. On Tuesday morning, the Vatican’s typically ...

Hoang Phuc Nguyen, who lives in Canada but was visiting Rome to participate in a Holy ... for Vancouver and modified the law for the Vatican City State to create a new hierarchy.