ROME - It reads like the plot of a daytime soap but the real-life drama of a prelate allegedly funneling funds to a woman dubbed the “cardinal’s dame” is being played out in the dark corners of th

 ROME – Calls for Pope Francis to change the title of his forthcoming encyclical Fratelli tutti

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 ROME – Cardinal George Pell, the pope’s former finance czar, has returned to Rome for the first time since he was acquitted of child sexual abuse and released fr

 ROME – The Italian cardinal embroiled in an embezzlement scandal had invested an additional 100 million pounds in luxury apartments in London, according to the

 ROME – Pope Francis has shown solidarity with tourism workers, whose industry has been paralyzed by COVID-19, Italian media reported on Monday.

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has accepted the sudden resignation of Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, whose departure has been linked to a London property scandal, La Repubblica reported on

 ROME – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has urged Pope Francis not to renew a two-year-old agreement between China and the Vatican, Italian media reported on Monday.

 In the photograph above it looks as though Saint John Paul II is blessing the Trumps. Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory called Trump’s visit ‘reprehensible.’

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis paid homage to a murdered priest calling him a “martyr of charity” as he concluded his weekly general audience before a small crowd at San Damaso courtyard on Wednesday

 VATICAN CITY – Vatican watchers mused over Pope Francis' policy on combatting coronavirus after he was photographed briefly wearing a mask when he was driven to the second weekly general audience

 ROME -- One enterprising restaurant owner in front of the St.Anne's Gate to the Vatican evidently was inspired by his holy neighbour to attempt a miracle of his

 The Outsider, by the London Tablet’s Vatican correspondent Christopher Lamb, is a sustained defence of Pope Francis.

VATICAN CITY – The new Pope Video has been released the day before the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, calling for a more equal sharing and responsibility of the world's resources. 

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis will once more hold general audiences for pilgrims, no longer in St. Peter's square, under Covid social distancing rules, reports Il Messaggero.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis once more highlighted the global, social imbalances that have been accentuated as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis spoke in his weekly address of the need for the world to “come out better, to better social injustices and environmental decay" after the crisis.

VATICAN CITY – The charity Hope Onlus is sending ventilators and ecographs to Brazil to help in the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has highlighted the necessity for compassion and fraternity in the light of the Coronavirus pandemic.

VATICAN CITY -  Pope Francis on Wednesday called for prayers for those affected by the explosion in Beirut that has killed at least 100 people and wounded over 4,000.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis’ latest Pope Video focuses on the difficult plight of “all those who work and live from the sea”.

VATICAN CITY – The former Pope Benedict, 93, is in a fragile state of health with a facial infection called erysipelas, reports Corriere della Sera.

VATICAN CITY –- On Sunday Pope Francis used the parable of the feeding of the 5,000 to give a lesson of compassion and generosity in the times of pandemic, speaking in his first August Angelus

VATICAN CITY -- A report from an American company, Recorded Future, alleges that Chinese hackers have breached the networks of the Holy See.