VATICAN CITY – Thinking about Istanbul after the Angelus prayer, Pope Francis said that "I think of Saint Sophia and I am very saddened," expressing the pain of the Holy See and the Catholic Church

ROME – During the mass celebrated on the seventh anniversary of his visit to Lampedusa, the Pope Francis attacked the “hell” of the detention centres on the African coast, and spoke about his exper

VATICAN CITY –  Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State, met with the US Ambassador and the Israeli Ambassador, in order to express the Holy See's condemnation of the upcoming unilateral land g

VATICAN CITY – Sister Maria Laura Mainetti of the congregation of the Daughters of the Cross, who was brutally murdered by three girls during a satanic ritual in 2000, has been determined to have b

VATICAN CITY – For the Angelus from St Peter’s Square, Pope Francis urged the international community to strive to restore peace in Libya, and said that he hoped a path would be forged towards peac

VATICAN CITY – Gianluigi Torzi was arrested on June 6 after an investigation uncovered that the Vatican middleman had been part of a property deal in London which allegedly involved financial crime

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has spoken out for peace and justice in the United States following the killing of George Floyd, whose death sparked millions to take to the streets in protest against p

VATICAN CITY – Swiss holding companies worth hundreds of millions of euros and created through the Lateran Pact, have been dismantled, closed, and their assets transferred into the oldest Vatican h

VATICAN CITY – St Peter’s Basilica reopened on Monday with a chapel mass to celebrate John Paul II, with approximately 30 people in attendance all observing social-distancing norms, in another tele

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has voiced his concern for the situation in Lebanon in this centenary year of 'Greater Lebanon', which has been experiencing a severe poverty crisis, and with current th

VATICAN CITY – According to new estimates, the The Holy See’s deficit is expected to rocket up to 145 per cent in 2020, in the context of the coronavirus epidemic causing economic slowdown and with

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has written a letter which pays homage to over 100 street newspapers around the world that give work and income to more than 20,500 homeless people, and expressed his so

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis called on people to pray for families battling with debt and loansharks during his Thursday mass at Santa Marta.

 MELBOURNE – Cardinal George Pell has been released from jail after the High Court of Australia Tuesday quashed his child sex abuse convictions.

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis celebrated Palm Sunday by calling on Christians to respond to the tragedy of the coronavirus by rediscovering that "life is of no us

VATICAN CITY — On the day that Pope Francis prayed in an empty St.

 VATICAN CITY – The Holy See may consider introducing a general lockdown after a prelate living in the Santa Marta guesthouse where Pope Francis resides was hospitalized with Coronavirus as the pon

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis Sunday urged Christians to "reply to the pandemic of the virus with the pandemic of prayer, compassion and tenderness," asking the f

ROME – Pope Francis emerged from his residence to visit the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore and to address a prayer to Salus populi Romani, whose icon is kept there and venerated, report the Vatic

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis thanked priests in Lombardy Sunday for remaining close to their parishioners at the epicentre of the Coronavirus epidemic and reiterated his "closeness to all the sick a

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis Wednesday urged the world to face up the Coronavirus emergency with “strength, responsibility and hope,” thanked doctors and nurses for their work in the battle against