VATICAN CITY -- Vatican Bank Director General Paolo Cipriani and his deputy Massimo Tulli resigned Monday in the wake of the arrest of a Monsignor on money laundering charges, Vatican sources said

ROME– A self-syled secret agent who claims he helped kidnap Vatican schoolgirl Emanuela Orlandi was convicted for killing in 1983 the son of a Uruguayan official at the UN food agency IFAD, police

 ROME--Pope Francis today celebrated his name day, the Feast of St. George, presiding over morning Mass in the Pauline Chapel within the Apostolic Palace.

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis appealed for peace in the Middle East, Africa and the Koreas in his first Easter Urbi et Orbi Easter Sunday address in St. Peter's Square.

 ROME -- Pope Francis celebrated his first Way of the Cross ceremony for Easter Friday as pontiff at the Colosseum this evening, watched by thousands of the faithful.

ROME-- The Pope marked Holy Thursday with a celebration in St Peter’s Basilica this morning before moving to Casal del Marmo juvenile delinquent centre this afternoon.

ROME -- Pope Francis had an historic meeting with Emeritus pope Benedict XVI at the apostolic summer palace in Castel Gandolfo today.

ROME-- Pope Francis spoke this morning to 180 diplomats and ambassadors to the Holy See to tell them how he hopes to 'build bridges' during his pontificate.

ROME-- Pope Francis will celebrate Mass on Holy Thursday at the Casa del Marmo juvenile detention centre, the Vatican announced this morning.

ROME-- In one of the galleries of the Vatican, there are a series of stunning 17th century maps covering the whole world then known in Rome.

ROME-- Between 150-200 thousand people from all over the world filled St Peter’s square to celebrate the first mass of Pope Francis’ papacy.

ROME-- He cares about the poor. But he rejects the Marxist Liberation Theology meta-narrative where “the poor” are a class. He knows and has helped poor people in familial ways as individuals. For Pope Francis the beauty is in the details, the white cassock, the small car, riding the bus, carrying his own luggage.

ROME-- The South Americans, the Italians, and the journalists think the Cardinals chose well, the surprise Pope, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina.

ROME-- Pope Francis marked his first full day as pontiff with a solemn visit to the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome yesterday, underlining the Jesuit's devotion to Mary.

VATICAN CITY - Catholic cardinals today chose Argentine Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio as leader of the Church, taking the name Pope Francis.

ROME-- Is it a sacred office or a CEO job?