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

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The Italian-American artist, famously featured on the cover on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, was the legendary songwriter's ...

Meet the group of chart-topping nuns aiming to beat Wham! and Mariah Carey to this year's Christmas No. 1 spot. The Poor Clares of Arundel have already topped classical music charts by swapping ...

Recently, scientists at Liverpool John Moores University used his skull to reconstruct his face. Elected as Bishop of Myra, in Asia Minor, in the fourth century AD — before Christianity was even ...

she counted back from three and “took a leap of faith,” revealing to them that she wanted to become a nun.