ROME– Food and Agriculture Organisation staff with Vatican “protectors” or in secretive Opus Dei are favoured by the UN agency management among employees facing vicious job cuts, FAO watchers say.

ROME-Pope Francis's embryonic papacy has been fresh air for many Catholics-The enthusiastic extrovert, impatient of formality, eager to preach and practice the essential message of God’s untiring f

VATICAN CITY– Pope Francis named Veneto archbishop Pietro Parolin Vatican Secretary of State Saturday to replace much criticised Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Holy See said.

VATICAN CITY – Members of the “gay lobby”in the Curia covered up the past of an allegedly gay prelate appointed by the Pope to clean up the Vatican bank, L’Espresso magazine reports.

  VATICAN CITY– Pope Francis signed a decree Friday approving the canonisation of his predecessors John Paul II and John XXIII by the end of the year. The signature followed a meeting of the Congre