VATICAN CITY – In his Apostolic Exhortation, Pope Francis warned Monday of the internet’s troubling capability to inhibit holiness, whilst focussing on the urgent need to support migrants, raising

ROME – Brother Anthony Freeman’s recent death came as a surprise for all when his body was discovered in his room on Easter Monday.

VATICAN CITY – This year’s Via Crucis, held annually at the Colosseum on Good Friday, will incorporate significant roles for students as Pope Francis hands over responsibilities to the younger gene

VATICAN CITY – Several pieces of plaster fell from Saint Peter’s Basilica, fortunately causing no harm, in a narrow escape for many tourists.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis was due to celebrate Maundy Thursday by visiting the Regina Coeli prison in Rome in the afternoon, symbolically washing the feet of inmates.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has accepted John McAreavey’s decision to resign from his position as Bishop of Dromore, following a request submitted at the beginning of the month.

VATICAN CITY – It was revealed on Wednesday that the Vatican’s head of the Secretariat for Communication, Monseigneur Dario Edoardo Viganò, had resigned following the furore surrounding the omissio

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis used a meeting with the youth at the pontifical college of Maria Mater Ecclesiae in Rome on Monday to launch a stern attack on the issues of human trafficking and prosti

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