Kennedy, who works under Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, head of the DDF and one of Pope Francis' closest aides, said about ...

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, who heads the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), met with the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church to discuss a rift caused by the recent Vatican ...

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández held a press conference on Friday addressing the Vatican’s new guidelines on apparitions, with the prelate noting that the new norms would help introduce ...

But as Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez wrote in the document, "there are serious critical issues that are detrimental to the faithful." "I am thinking of the use of such phenomenon to gain ...

DDF chief Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez said in a press conference on Friday introducing the new norms that the Vatican would no longer affirm "with moral certainty that (such phenomena ...

Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, said in a statement. The declaration said surrogate parenting violated the dignity of both the surrogate mother and the child, and recalled that Francis in ...

Pope Francis used an offensive gay slang word during a meeting with Italian bishops, where he joked about the number of gay ...

People have long claimed sightings of the Virgin Mary or bleeding crucifixes, and some endorsed by the Roman Catholic Church have become hugely popular pilgrimage destinations. By Elisabetta ...

Editor's Note: This story has been updated. ROME — The Vatican’s top doctrinal office is centralizing its authority over the investigation of alleged Marian apparitions and other religious ...

The Vatican is set to hold a press conference announcing updated church doctrines on “apparitions and other supernatural phenomena” on Friday. Notice of the press conference, which will be ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Friday radically reformed its process for evaluating alleged visions of the Virgin Mary, ...

Francis is said to have used derogatory language during discussion of including celibate gay men in training for priesthood ...