The Vatican has confirmed that disciplinary sanctions are still in effect against the first-ever cardinal from Opus Dei following accusations of sexual abuse
January 26, 2025Pope Francis is not expected to veto President Donald Trump's choice of a high-profile critic of his papacy as the next U.S. ambassador to the Holy See,
January 22, 2025
Karen Vasquez, 44, walked out of jail in Cuba on Sunday, part of a deal brokered by the Vatican under which the Biden administration would loosen
January 22, 2025
Pope Francis has fallen and hurt his right arm
January 16, 2025
Pope Francis injures arm after falling at the Vatican
January 16, 2025
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on Tuesday his government would "gradually" release 553 prisoners following talks with the Vatican, a decision announced just hours after the
January 14, 2025
Pope Francis tells in memoir how documents on abuse and corruption cases were handed to him
January 14, 2025
Pope Francis has named the first woman to head a major Vatican office
January 06, 2025
Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to lead a major Vatican department, appointing an Italian sister to take charge of the office that oversees the
January 06, 2025
Pope Francis has warned that bullying in schools prepares students for war rather than peace
January 04, 2025
Pope Francis ushered in the New Year with an appeal for the faithful to reject abortion, calling for a “firm commitment” to protect and respect life from conception to natural death
January 01, 2025
Rome has completed the most ambitious of thousands of construction works that have disrupted daily life in the Eternal City in preparation for the millions of
December 23, 2024
Pope Francis is suffering from a cold and will deliver his Sunday blessing from indoors
December 21, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump says he’s nominating the president of the advocacy group CatholicVote to be the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican
December 20, 2024
President Joe Biden will travel to Italy next month to meet with Pope Francis and top Italian officials for what is expected to be the final international trip of his presidency
December 19, 2024
One of the Vatican's Nativity scenes raised eyebrows when it was unveiled because it featured a keffiyeh, the Palestinian headscarf
December 11, 2024
Renovations have left Rome in chaos. Now 35 million visitors are about to descend
December 11, 2024
A former director of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel Choir was convicted of embezzlement on Tuesday, sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay back
December 10, 2024Pope Francis will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday, the Vatican said, as the Catholic pontiff has become more vocal in his criticism of
December 10, 2024
Pope Francis led a ceremony in St.
December 07, 2024
Pope Francis has installed 21 new cardinals, many of whom are key figures in his reform agenda
December 07, 2024
The Vatican has included an event organised by LGBT Catholics on its official online calendar for the upcoming 2025 Roman Catholic Holy Year, in an unusual
December 06, 2024
Newly discovered correspondence in the Vatican archives suggests that Pope Pius XII had detailed information from a trusted German Jesuit that up to 6,000 Jews and Poles were being gassed each day in German-occupied Poland
September 16, 2023
Women who say they were abused by a once-prominent Jesuit artist say they are now being revictimized by his superiors
September 19, 2023
Early next month, the Vatican will open an unprecedented gathering of Catholic clergy and laypeople from around the world
September 24, 2023
Pope Francis has presided over a ceremony to create 21 new cardinals
September 30, 2023
Pope Francis will open this week a global gathering of Catholic bishops and laypeople to discuss the future of the church
October 02, 2023
Pope Francis has suggested there might be ways to bless same-sex unions
October 02, 2023
Conservative Catholics have launched a barrage of challenges before a big Vatican meeting, with five cardinals demanding clarifications on same-sex couples
April 26, 2024
Clergy sexual abuse survivors have unveiled a proposed new church law calling for the permanent removal of abusive priests and superiors who covered for them
October 02, 2023
Pope Francis has opened a big meeting on the future of the Catholic Church
October 04, 2023
Pope Francis’ big meeting on the future of the Catholic Church is heading into its final stretch
October 25, 2023
Pope Francis will have nearly an entire day of bilateral meetings with world leaders attending the COP28 climate conference in Dubai next month, according
April 26, 2024
The head of the Catholic church in China has begun a trip to Hong Kong at the invitation of the city’s pope-appointed Roman Catholic cardinal, marking the first official visit by a Beijing bishop in history
November 14, 2023
Lawyers for a once-powerful cardinal have accused Vatican prosecutors of being “prisoners to their completely shattered theory" in closing arguments of a trial that has raised fundamental questions about the rule of law in the city state
November 22, 2023
The Vatican says Pope Francis went to the hospital for tests after he came down with the flu
November 25, 2023
The Vatican says Pope Francis is receiving antibiotics intravenously to treat a lung inflammation but that he doesn't have pneumonia
November 27, 2023
Pope Francis has decided to take measures to punish Cardinal Raymond Burke, who is one of his highest-ranking critics
November 28, 2023
Pope Francis has canceled his trip to Dubai for the U.N. climate conference on doctors’ orders
November 28, 2023
Pope Francis has made his first public appearance outdoors since being stricken by bronchitis two weeks ago, which forced him to cancel a planned trip to the COP-28 climate conference in Dubai
December 08, 2023
A Vatican tribunal has convicted a cardinal of embezzlement and sentenced him to 5 ½ years in prison in one of several verdicts handed down in a complicated financial trial that aired the city state’s dirty laundry and tested its justice system
December 16, 2023
Pope Francis is marking a birthday
December 17, 2023
The Vatican’s chief prosecutor has appealed a court verdict that largely dismantled his theory of a grand conspiracy to defraud the Holy See of millions of euros
December 22, 2023
The Vatican next year will publish a collection of never-before-seen homilies delivered by the late Pope Benedict XVI
December 23, 2023
The Vatican has concluded a lengthy investigation into allegations of misconduct by Archbishop John Nienstedt, the former leader of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis
January 05, 2024
In the greatest rebuke yet to Pope Francis, the Catholic bishops of Africa and Madagascar have issued a unified statement refusing to follow his declaration allowing priests to offer blessings to same-sex couples
January 11, 2024
The Vatican says Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez and 18 Catholic clergy members from the Latin American country have arrived in Rome and are guests of the Holy See
January 14, 2024
Pope Francis says if he can, he'll keep a promise to visit his native Argentina in the second half of this year
January 14, 2024
As artificial intelligence's impact on society receives more scrutiny, a Franciscan friar who preaches a message of ethics in technology has gained some powerful listeners
January 18, 2024
Pope Francis met a delegation from Vietnam's Communist Party on Thursday and the Vatican's foreign minister said the pontiff was keen to visit the Southeast
April 26, 2024
A peace group with close ties to the Vatican said on Tuesday it will appeal to European businesses and tourists to boycott the U.S. state of Alabama if it went
January 23, 2024
Argentina’s faith and politics have come together at the Vatican
February 11, 2024
Nineteen priests kicked out of the country, dozens of incidents of harassment and church desecrations, rural areas lacking worship and social services
February 11, 2024
Despite their rocky start, Argentine President Javier Milei and Pope Francis appear to have hit it off
February 12, 2024
The Vatican on Wednesday unveiled a new open-top popemobile, an all-electric Mercedes-Benz that Pope Francis will use when he greets pilgrims in St.
December 04, 2024
Israel has formally complained after a senior Vatican official spoke of “carnage” in Gaza
February 15, 2024
Five years ago this week, Pope Francis convened an unprecedented summit of bishops from around the world to impress on them that clergy abuse was a global problem and that they needed to do something about it
February 20, 2024
One of the first women who accused a once-exalted Jesuit artist of spiritual, psychological and sexual abuse has gone public
February 21, 2024
Pope Francis was well enough to celebrate his weekly Angelus prayer from the Vatican window overlooking St. Peter’s Square, a day after cancelling his engagements because of a mild flu
February 25, 2024
Ukrainian and allied officials have criticized Pope Francis for saying that Kyiv should have the “courage” to negotiate an end to the war with Russia, a statement many interpreted as a call on Ukraine to surrender
March 10, 2024
The Vatican has unveiled a groundbreaking project for the upcoming Venice Biennale of Art: It is mounting a multimedia installation inside Venice’s Giudecca women’s prison
March 11, 2024
The clergy sexual abuse scandal is slowly gathering steam in Italy
March 11, 2024
Pope Francis says he has no plans to resign and isn’t suffering from any health problems that would require doing so
March 14, 2024
Pope Francis has decided at the last minute to skip his homily during Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square
March 24, 2024
Pope Francis has washed and kissed the feet of 12 women inmates at a Rome prison
March 28, 2024
The Vatican says Pope Francis is skipping the traditional Good Friday procession at Rome’s Colosseum to protect his health, adding to concerns about his frail condition during a particularly busy liturgical period
March 29, 2024
The Vatican has confirmed Pope Francis will preside over the Easter Vigil service on Saturday night
March 30, 2024
Pope Francis appears to have overcome concerns about his health to preside over Easter Sunday Mass
March 31, 2024
Pope Francis has exposed the political “maneuvers” used to sway votes during the two most recent elections of popes in a book-length interview
April 02, 2024
An international campaign to ban surrogacy has received a strong endorsement from the Vatican
April 05, 2024
The Vatican has declared that sex change operations and surrogacy are grave threats to human dignity
April 08, 2024
Transgender Catholics are voicing disappointment with a new Vatican document rejecting the fundamental concept of changing one’s biological sex
April 08, 2024
The Vatican has issued a new document rejecting the concept of changing one’s biological sex
April 09, 2024
The Holy See has formally protested to France after a French court ruled that a former high-ranking Vatican official was liable for what the court determined to be the wrongful dismissal of a nun from a religious order
April 13, 2024
Italian police arrested last week a "most wanted" U.S. fugitive who was carrying three concealed knives in a crowded St Peter's Square outside the Vatican, a judicial source said on
April 18, 2024A pair of nude feet — dirty, wounded and vulnerable — are painted on the façade of the Venice women’s prison chapel
April 19, 2024
Tech giant Cisco Systems has joined Microsoft and IBM in signing onto a Vatican-sponsored pledge to ensure artificial intelligence is developed and used ethically
April 24, 2024
Pope Francis is traveling to Venice to visit the Holy See’s pavilion for this year’s Venice Biennale
April 28, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff thanked a Vatican envoy on Tuesday for his efforts in trying to bring home thousands of children forcibly taken to Russia and asked
May 15, 2024
Pope Francis made his first trip out of Rome for seven months on Sunday with a packed visit to Venice that took in an art exhibition, a prison and a Mass, with the 87-
May 14, 2024
Authorities are expanding their investigation of clergy sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans to include church leaders suspected of shielding predatory priests and failing to report crimes to law enforcement
May 01, 2024
Maximilian Fischer, 20, is one of the new recruits to an institution that has been protecting popes since the 16th century - the Swiss Guard.
May 22, 2024
The Vatican has crossed a key milestone in the runup to its 2025 Jubilee with the promulgation of the official decree establishing the Holy Year
May 09, 2024
Forty-nine employees of the Vatican Museums have filed a class-action complaint with the Vatican administration demanding better seniority, leave and overtime benefits
May 13, 2024
Israel's Embassy to the Holy See issued a protest on Monday after a Yemeni Nobel Prize winner accused Israel of "genocide" in Gaza during an event hosted by the Vatican.
May 28, 2024
Pope Francis said his conservative critics within the Roman Catholic Church in the United States are trapped in a "suicidal attitude," according to an interview with CBS.
May 31, 2024
Pope Francis is planning to visit Turkey next year to mark the anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea, the spiritual head of the world's Orthodox Christians said on Thursday.
May 31, 2024
The Vatican has radically reformed its process for evaluating alleged visions of the Virgin Mary, weeping statues and other seemingly supernatural phenomena
May 17, 2024
The Vatican on Friday tightened procedures for evaluating reported supernatural events such as weeping Madonnas and blood-dripping crucifixes that have for
June 03, 2024
The Vatican has revised how it evaluates purported supernatural events, such as reported visions of the Virgin Mary, to guard against hoaxes and account for news going viral
May 17, 2024
An investigation ordered by Pope Francis has cleared Canadian Cardinal Gerald Lacroix of wrongdoing after he was named in a class-action lawsuit that alleged sexual assault,
June 05, 2024
The Vatican would like to establish a permanent office in China in what would be a major upgrade of diplomatic relations with Beijing, Cardinal Secretary
June 05, 2024
China is willing to work with the Vatican to improve ties, a Chinese foreign ministry official said on Wednesday following remarks from the
June 06, 2024
Pope Francis has not done enough to stamp out clerical sex abuse and its cover-up, activists and abuse survivors said on Thursday, protesting before a Vatican-hosted
June 08, 2024
Pope Francis appeared at Rome's Olympic Stadium on Saturday to provide a symbolic kick-off to a soccer match as part of celebrations for a Vatican-hosted "World Children's Day"
June 11, 2024
Pope Francis used a highly derogatory term towards the LGBT community as he reiterated in a closed-door meeting with Italian bishops that gay people should not be allowed to
June 12, 2024
Pope Francis has apologized after he was quoted using a vulgar term about gay men to reaffirm the Catholic Church’s ban on gay priests
May 28, 2024
Pope Francis, widely quoted as having used a highly derogatory word to describe the LGBT community, did not intend to use homophobic language and apologises
June 13, 2024
Pope Francis’ apology for using a vulgar term to refer to gay men was the latest comment to make headlines about the Catholic Church’s teachings on homosexuality
May 28, 2024
The head of the Vatican office that disciplines predator priests on Tuesday called on bishops across the world to report all suspect child abuse cases to him in
June 13, 2024
A top Vatican cardinal has urged European voters to remember their own migratory roots in showing sympathy to people forced to flee their homes
June 03, 2024
The Vatican's point man on migration and social justice on Monday urged EU citizens who might be tempted to vote for far-right parties in this week's European Parliament
June 19, 2024
The world must do more to reduce the debt burden faced by low income countries to avoid them entering a cycle of poverty and despair, Pope Francis said on Wednesday.
June 21, 2024
Francis is a pope of many firsts: the first to use that name, the first from Latin America, the first from the Jesuit religious order.
June 23, 2024
Vatican police have detained a former employee after he allegedly tried to sell a 17th century manuscript back to the Holy See
June 06, 2024
Vatican police arrested a former employee for allegedly trying to sell to the city-state a 17th-century manuscript by Italian Baroque master Gian Lorenzo Bernini that had
June 25, 2024
Pope Francis, who says he regularly prays "Lord, give me a sense of humour", will welcome comedians from around the world to a cultural event in Italy to "celebrate the beauty
June 25, 2024
The pope has again used a highly disparaging word against gay people for which he had already apologised last month, ANSA news agency said on Tuesday.
June 27, 2024
Pope Francis will meet with the leaders of the United States, Ukraine, France and India, among others, on the sidelines of the Group of 7 (G7) summit in Italy, the Vatican said
June 28, 2024
Before flying to Italy’s southern Puglia region to meet world leaders at the Group of Seven summit, Pope Francis hosted a very different audience at the Vatican celebrating the importance of humor
June 14, 2024
The Rome LGBTQ+ Pride parade has celebrated its 30th anniversary as tens of thousands of people in brightly colored outfits marched through the streets of Rome
June 15, 2024
Pope Francis on Wednesday called for prayers for the Chinese people, in unscripted remarks coming amid the Vatican's desire to upgrade its relations with Beijing.
July 01, 2024
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a senior Italian churchman who had called for Pope Francis to resign, said on Thursday he has been accused by the Vatican of schism and denying
July 02, 2024
The Vatican is standing trial in a London court over a property deal
June 26, 2024
The pope's top adviser on fighting sex abuse is urging Vatican offices to stop displaying artwork by an ex-Jesuit artist
June 28, 2024
A prominent cardinal has asked Vatican authorities to stop displaying the artwork of a Jesuit priest accused of abusing nuns and other women, to avoid a
June 28, 2024
The Vatican has banned workers at St Peter's Basilica from having visible tattoos or body piercings to maintain "decorum".
July 01, 2024
The Vatican called on Tuesday for the peaceful resolution of conflicts, including tensions between the Philippines and China as the two nations work to manage their dispute in the
July 02, 2024Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a fierce ultra-conservative critic of Pope Francis, has been found guilty of schism and excommunicated, the Vatican's
July 05, 2024
Archbishop critical of Pope Francis excommunicated for schism
July 05, 2024
Pope’s chief of staff gives evidence in landmark London property trial
July 05, 2024
The Vatican has excommunicated its former ambassador to the United States after finding him guilty of schism
July 05, 2024
The Vatican’s chief prosecutor has strongly defended the integrity and fairness of the city state’s justice system
July 08, 2024
The global Catholic Church is split on whether to allow women to serve as deacons, a Vatican document showed on Tuesday, just weeks after Pope Francis ruled
July 09, 2024
Pope Francis is appealing for concrete new measures to end the wars in Ukraine and Gaza
July 09, 2024The Vatican says its doctrine office will be preparing a document on women in leadership roles in the Catholic Church, as part of a new initiative to respond to longstanding demands by women to have a greater say in the church's life
July 09, 2024
All roads might lead to Rome, but when they reach here, they are likely to be dug up, shut off or under renovation as the city undergoes a monumental facelift ahead
July 11, 2024
The Knights of Columbus, an influential Catholic charitable organization, says it will cover up its mosaics made by a famous ex-Jesuit artist accused of abusing women
July 11, 2024The remains of what appears to be a medieval palace where popes lived before they made the Vatican their home have been excavated in Rome prior to renovations for the 2025 Catholic
July 17, 2024
The Vatican is insisting at the close of a trial in London that it was the victim of a years-long fraud over its investment in a London property
July 18, 2024
The recently opened archives of Pope Pius XII are providing details about the scandal over the founder of the Legionaries of Christ
July 21, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday praised the Vatican's efforts in seeking peace and releasing prisoners of war in talks with a senior official, a contrast from previous
July 23, 2024
The Vatican said on Saturday it had been saddened by a skit at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony appearing to parody Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper"
August 03, 2024Pope Francis on Monday named a new leader for the Roman Catholic Church in Boston, succeeding the retiring archbishop, Cardinal Sean O'Malley, one of the
August 05, 2024
Pope Francis's weekly general audience at the Vatican on Wednesday was briefly interrupted by two women from an animal rights group, who shouted and held up signs against
August 07, 2024
Pope Francis, back from his summer break, is beginning a hectic few months of travel and major debate over the future direction of the Catholic Church.
August 07, 2024
Animal rights activists storm pope’s general audience to protest bullfighting
August 07, 2024
Here are some statistics about Pope Francis, 87, who is in the midst of a 33,000-km (20,500-mile) tour of four Southeast Asian nations. WHEN WAS POPE FRANCIS ELECTED?
August 29, 2024
Pope Francis leaves on Monday for a visit to four island nations across southeast Asia, an ambitious trip to urge global action on climate change that may
August 29, 2024
CNN was among a small group of journalists who traveled with Pope Francis to Vanimo, a remote area of Papua New Guinea, to show solidarity and spread words of encouragement to over 20,000 Catholics.
September 09, 2024
Pope Francis’ Mass in one of world’s most Catholic nations gathers almost half its population
September 09, 2024
Pope Francis arrived on Monday in East Timor, a predominantly Catholic nation in Southeast Asia, for a three-day visit that will include an open-air celebration of
September 09, 2024
The Vatican says some 600,000 people have attended Pope Francis’ Mass in East Timor, or nearly half the country’s population
September 10, 2024
When Pope Francis arrives Wednesday in Asia’s financial powerhouse Singapore for the last leg of a four-nation tour, he is expected to bring his message of unity and hope to one of the world’s richest nations
September 10, 2024
An estimated 600,000 people in East Timor, just under half its population, turned out in the baking heat on Tuesday for a Mass with Pope Francis at a coastal park
September 10, 2024
Pope Francis is concluding his visit to Singapore by praising its tradition of interfaith harmony
September 13, 2024
Pope Francis has offered extensive praise for China at the end of a trip through Asia
September 13, 2024
Flying back to Rome from a lengthy trip to Asia, Pope Francis criticized both U.S. presidential candidates for what he called anti-life policies on abortion and migration
September 13, 2024
Pope Francis' longest and farthest trip has proven that despite his age, ailments and eight hours of jet lag, Pope Francis can still pull off an ambitious trip to Asia
September 15, 2024
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