VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis entertained the possibility of selling disused, empty Italian churches to raise money for the poor in his address at the Episcopalian Conference, Il Messaggero reports o

ROME - Pope Francis has harshly condemned Black Friday for inducing rampant consumerism.

ROME – The human remains found in the Vatican’s Embassy to Italy ‘don’t belong’ to either Emanuela Orlandi or Mirella Gregori, the two girls who went missing in 1983, legal sources reported on Frid

ROME - The Italian Bishops Conference (CEI) announced Thursday that the text of the best-known prayer in Christianity is about to change.

VATICAN CITY – Excessive zeal was shown by a member of the Swiss Guard at the Vatican on Wednesday, as he pepper sprayed a female pedestrian, Il Messaggero reports.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis warned against the idolatry of money and luxury in the Church, particularly among bishops, in his sermon during mass at the Casa Santa

ROME – Following a ruling from the European Court of Justice on Tuesday which ordered Italy to recoup unpaid Church property tax, a census of Church-owned buildings in Rome has been asked for by th

ROME – Investigations into the human remains found at the Vatican's embassy to Italy have suggested that at least some of the fragments belong to an adult woman, rather than a teenager, sources say

VATICAN – Pope Francis has recognised All Saints Day by visiting the consecrated Laurentino cemetery on the outskirts of Rome on Friday, in which a section is des

ROME - It has been announced that 83 Syrian refugees will arrive at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport on Wednesday Oct. 31.

VATICAN CITY - An urgent call on climate action is being launched by bishops from all over the world following a recent report that underlines the need for policies limiting global warming to 1.5 d

VATICAN CITY -  Pope Francis has appealed for more tolerance and explained the root causes of populism during a book launch entitled, “Sharing the Wisdom of Time” at Rome's Augustinianum Institute.

ROME - A silent march will take place on Sunday to mark 75 years since the deportation of Roman citizens to Auschwitz-Birkenau on 16th October 1943.

VATICAN CITY – On a visit to the Vatican, the number two cleric in the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Hilarion, has accused the United States of engineering the independence of the Ukrainian

ROME - Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, President of Caritas Internationalis, is encouraging communities to oppose fear and hatred by participating in a one kilometre walk alongside migrants and refuge

VATICAN CITY – As world leaders gather in Rome at the FAO headquarters for World Food Day, the Vatican has released a letter from Pope Francis to Director General of the UN organisation, José Grazi

VATICAN CITY – In a ceremony on Sunday at the Vatican, Salvadoran archbishop Oscar Romero was elevated to sainthood, along with Pope Paul VI and five others by Pope Francis

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