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

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