VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican Museums, The Embassies of Sweden and of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Holy See and in collaboration with the Pontifical Counc

 VATICAN CITY -- Italians and tourists flocked to the official illumination of a very special Christmas tree in St.

 VATICAN CITY -- The ex-Metropolitan Archbishop of Krakow, Stanislaw Dziwisz, has retired from his position for reasons of age, as Pope Francis app

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis talked about Europe's "lack of forward-looking leaders," the success of the Jubilee, and media "sickness" in an interview with the Catholic weekly Tertio, excerpts of

 ROME – Venezuelan protestors chained themselves at the front of the Vatican Sunday in a public plea for the release of political prisoners.

 VATICAN CITY -- In his weekly Wednesday address, Pope Francis talked about people risking their lives to bury others in warzones, and remembered the deceased Brazilian football players who died in

 ROME -- Pope Francis said that the death of the iconic Cuban revolutionary and long-standing former president of this central-American island is “sad news,” in a telegram to Raul Castro, who annou

 VATICAN CITY -- From now onwards, all priests from across the world, not solely the ‘missionaries of mercy’ such as bishops and special confessors

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis closed the Holy Door at St.

 VATICAN CITY -- Italy has ‘snubbed’ Pope Francis’ appeal for “clemency towards prisoners,” yet Cuba has taken the words on board as Raúl Castro al

 ROME -- Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin said Wednesday of the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, “We respectfu

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has reopened the case for sainthood for the Salvadorian archbishop, Oscar Romero, murdered while giving mass in 1980, but is undergoing bureaucratic delays, Vatican so

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis stressed the importance Wednesday of a female dimension in the Roman Catholic Church but ruled out the possibility of female priests, when asked on his way back from S

  MALMÖ -- Pope Francis has arrived in Sweden to participate in the ceremony of commemoration for the 500-year-anniversary of the Lutheran reform.

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis welcomed Thursday delegates from the Santa Marta Group, an organization working against human trafficking, to the Apostolic Palace in the Holy See, the Vatican said.

 ROME -- The Roman Catholic Church elucidated its latest most open stance on cremation, saying does not prohibit this practice as long as certain rules and conditions are respected, religious sourc

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis met with Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro to initiate dialogue between his government and the coalition of rival parties, in an attempt to work towards alleviating

 ROME -- A so-called “black pope” -- Arturo Sosa Abascal, aged 67, from Venezuela -- has been elected as the new head of the Jesuits, following four days of meetings and consultations between the 2

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis surprises us all by opening the most private chambers of his summer residence in Castelgandolfo to the public, a move

 VATICAN CITY – Numerous cardinals living in the same apartment building as the new MacDonald’s restaurant near the St Anne's gate of Pope Francis' tiny city state are up in arms over the inaugurat

 ROME -- Pope Francis made a new heartfelt plea Wednesday morning calling to end the bombing in Syria, with particular reference to the civilian vi

 VATICAN CITY -- The papal emissary to Syria has been named as one of a group of new cardinals announced on Sunday by Pope Francis, including 13 who are eligible to succeed him.