VATICAN CITY – Tuesday marks the anniversary of Pope Francis’s first five years in office and his predecessor, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, formerly Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, used the occasion to p

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis was aware of claims of an alleged cover up of paedophilic abuse in Chile by Bishop Juan Barros as early as 2015, having received a letter from one of the abuse victims,

VATICAN CITY – Pro-Kurdish protesters and police scuffled near the CastelSantAngelo Monday, police said, as Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Pope Francis in an audience, making the first visit of a Tu

ROME - Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, president of the Italian Bishops Conference, has warned the country of repeating “a dark page in the history of our country: the racial laws of 1938” due to the

ROME - Cardinal Sean O’Malley has heavily rebuked Pope Francis for his comments on sexual abuse.

ROME - Two flight attendants were married by Pope Francis on a flight between Santiago and Iquique, Northern Chile.  

ROME - Pope Francis’ speech to the Diplomatic Corps on Monday demonstrated the increasingly political role of the Vatican in the wider world.

 VATICAN CITY – Mornings will not be the same for tens of thousands of expatriates in Rome and elsewhere in 2018 after the Holy See over the past few months axed

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis issued a heartfelt Christmas Day appeal for peace in Jerusalem and the Holy Land Monday, calling for “peaceful co-existence of two States” in an Urbi et Orbi address tha

DHAKA  - Pope Francis has spoken the word “Rohingya,” deliberately unused thus far on his pastoral trip around Myanmar and Bangladesh, as he explained to 16 Rohingya that the spirit of Go

ROME - Giulio Mattietti, Deputy Director of the Institute for the Works of Religion, more commonly known as the “Vatican bank,” has been forced to resign under mysterious circumstances.

YANGON - Pope Francis landed at Yangon International Airport Monday, beginning his three-day pastoral visit to Myanmar before traveling on to Bangladesh.

ROME - Pope Francis appeared uncharacteristically annoyed by his congregation in a speech he gave on Wednesday. The pontiff pleaded with people to stop chatting and taking selfies during Mass.

 ROME-- Running the Anglican Centre in the Eternal City may sound like a quixotic task pursuing elusive ecumenical unity.

ROME - Pope Francis said Thursday that "It may be morally permissible to give up or suspend the treatment" when death is inevitable.

VATICAN CITY - A former Polish seminary student has denounced what he claims is alleged sexual abuse in the elite Vatican pre-seminary of choirboys who sing in St Peter's Basilica for Pope Francis.

VATICAN CITY - The popular holiday of Halloween has been scorned by former Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo for being an irreligious festival that allows people to perform satanic rituals.

ROME - The liberal dissident We are Church movement has stated that the Roman Catholic Church is still in need of major reform, 500 years after Luther.