VATICAN CITY - The Vatican have decided to open an internal investigation into the famed disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, the family’s lawyers have revealed.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis revealed that his decision to repeatedly pull away his hand to avoid pilgrims in Loreto from kissing his ring was due to a fear of spr

VATICAN CITY - Female staff members of the Vatican City’s monthly Donne Chiesa Mondo magazine have resigned en masse in protest against a “climate of distrust and

MELBOURNE - Cardinal George Pell who was found guilty of child sex abuse when he was a Catholic archbishop of Melbourne in the 1990s, has been sentenced to six years in prison with a non-parole per

VATICAN CITY – Argentine Bishop Gustavo Oscar Zanchetta, who is under investigation by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith following allegations of sexual coercion and misconduct involvi

ROME - “Those are the words, but where are the actions?” This was the indictment of Pope Francis and the Vatican delivered by Italian journalist and Vatican commentator Emiliano Fittipaldi that hel

ROME - Former parish priest of Carbonara di Rovolon, Don Roberto Cavazzana involved in the sex scandal organised by ex-priest of San Lazzaro Don Andrea Contin, will be reinstated into ministerial s

VATICAN CITY - The archbishop of Lyon and France's most senior figure in the Roman Catholic church, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, has been found guilty of covering up incidents of child sexual abuse

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis announced on Monday that the Vatican would open its archives on controversial Holocaust-era Pope Pius XII next year.

VATICAN CITY – The family of Emanuela Orlandi have submitted a formal request to the Vatican secretary of state Cardinal Pietro Parolin, appealing for the reopening of a burial recess at the Teuton

MELBOURNE – Cardinal George Pell has been found guilty of child sex abuse in Victoria’s county court in Australia.

ROME – Pope Francis has announced that he is to set up child protection task forces as he pledged “all out battle” against abuse. He condemned those who engage in abuse as "tools of satan."

ROME –  Leading Pennsylvania politician Mark Rozzi, nationally known for his unwavering defence of survivors of child sexual abuse, and himself a victim of rape at the hands of a priest, called for

ROME - On the eve of the Anti-Paedophilia Summit, French author of ‘Sodoma’ Frederic Martel spoke at the Eternal City’s Foreign Press Association, reiterating the claim pronounced in his book that

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has decided to defrock 88-year-old American ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick following the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s final decree of the trial that decl

PARIS – Italian bishop Luigi Ventura, papal nuncio to France, is under investigation for sexual assault accusations.

VATICAN CITY – British Cardinal John Henry Newman, a theologian, scholar and one of the highest profile figures in British Catholicism, is to be made a saint after Pope Francis approved a miracle a

ROME – Eradicating poverty and fighting hunger is front and centre of the Pope’s mind, who says we can’t pass the buck on the issue.

Vatican City – Pope Francis’ decision to defrock ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick is impending, according to Vatican sources.

ROME - Throughout the course of history, religion has often been used to mark divisions and incite violent actions.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis heralded Wednesday his historic trip to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as a "new page" in the story of Christianity and Islam.

ABU DHABI – On the last morning of his historic visit to the United Arab Emirates, Pope Francis addressed over 100,000 Catholics from around the world in the Zayed Sports City stadium.

VATICAN CITY – A senior Vatican official who handled sexual abuse cases has resigned after a former nun accused him of sexually assaulting her a decade ago.