Female cardinals, on the other hand, are more muted in color. They have mostly brownish feathers with red accents on their tails and wings. Sign up for Chip Chick's newsletter and get stories like ...

Fortunately, it's actually very easy to tell the difference between a male and female cardinal. Once you learn the trick for telling them apart, you'll never need to wonder whether you're looking ...

Naming as a cardinal “would be automatic for the head of a dicastery ... Francis has upheld the ban on female priests and ...

Pope Francis has appointed Sister Simona Brambilla as the first woman to head a major Vatican department, marking a ...

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

He will succeed Cardinal Wilton Gregory, 77, who was the first African-American Archbishop of Washington, DC. Francis also appointed on Monday the first female leader of a Vatican department.

She takes over from the retiring Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz ... Francis has upheld the ban on female priests and tamped down hopes that women could be ordained as deacons. But there has been a marked ...