VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis compared abortion to “hiring a hitman to solve a problem,” when addressing his weekly audience at St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday.

VATICAN CITY – The decision to deny women and young adult lay representatives voting authority in the upcoming Synod on Youth has come under intense criticism from We Are Church International.

ROME – Former Trump white house advisor Steve Bannon is helping draft a curriculum for a leadership course to be held at a right-wing Roman Catholic institute in Italy, official sources said on Mon

VATICAN – Pope Francis to change at least three cardinals out of the nine that make up the “crown” council (C9), official sources said on Monday.

ROME - A new dossier exposes what it claimed is alleged questionable conduct by Kevin Joseph Farrell, a bishop with close ties to the recently accused ex-Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, and the high

ROME – Local staff at the Catholic Relief Services in Sudan are increasingly concerned about being obliged to undertake birdwatching excursions into dangerous war zones with the Vatican-linked char

ROME - Pope Francis has changed the catechism of the Catholic Church, insisting that the death penalty is “unjustifiable”, religious authorities said on Friday.

ROME – The French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, whose role as leader of interreligious dialogue built crucial bridges between the Church and Islam, died after a long fight with Parkinson’s disease, t

ROME - The Vatican cricket team is currently on tour in England to promote interreligious dialogue and experience religion through spo

VATICAN CITY - The managing director of the Sistine Chapel Choir, the oldest Church choir in the world, reportedly has been suspended following an internal Holy See investigation into alleged finan

ROME – Monks in the historic Monte Cassino have signed a contract with Peroni to launch the abbey as an up-and-coming beer producer of a powerful brew named after their founder St. Benedict.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis told his new cardinals never to feel “superior” to anyone, to avoid protecting their own power and to embrace their new role through service and love of poverty.  Speaki

VATICAN CITY – French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Rome on Tuesday for an audience with Pope Francis, with discussions centred around migration, climate change and secularism, but will not

VATICAN CITY – Returning from Geneva on Friday, having met with the leaders of Christian Churches, Pope Francis spoke about the urgent need for European countries to provide aid through the Marshal

ROME – LGBTQ issues, gender, migration, corruption, disabilities and drug trafficking will be some of the topics discussed at the Synod of Bishops scheduled for October, officials confirmed.

VATICAN CITY – During a mass at Santa Marta, Pope Francis spoke about the root of dictatorships, a reflection that some observers felt was directed at the Trump administration.

VATICAN CITY – Cardinal Leonard Burke has asked for the Italian bishops’ daily, the Avvenire, to issue a public apology for publishing an article that deeply offended him, officials say.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Juan Barros, Bishop of Osorno, and two other churchmen involved in the Chilean sexual abuse scandal, Vatican officials confirmed on Monda

ROME – On June 7 at 6.15 p.m. a “Prayer Vigil for Italy” will be held in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere.

ROME – The radical opposition group We Are Church International (WACI) has strongly rejected Archbishop Luis Ladaria’s claim that the ban on ordaining women to Catholic priesthood has a “definitive