VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has issued a landmark new law which will require Catholic priests and nuns to report all incidents of sexual abuse and subsequent cover-ups to church authorities.

SKOPJE – Pope Francis called for respect between peoples and insisted that this is still possible in today’s world, in an interview on his return from North Macedonia and Bulgaria.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis expressed his “sadness and pain” Sunday at the terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka that killed circa 300 Christians at churches across the

VATICAN CITY - World famous Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg met Pope Francis ahead of a pro-environment student led rally scheduled to take place in Rome’s Piazza Venezia.

ROME - Fraternity, peace and coexistence.

VATICAN CITY - The Holy See expressed their “shock and sadness” as Paris’ famed cathedral Notre Dame was Monday devastated by a fire.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has urged young people not to become slaves to their mobile phones, sources from the Holy See have revealed.

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican have decided to open an internal investigation into the famed disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, the family’s lawyers have revealed.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis revealed that his decision to repeatedly pull away his hand to avoid pilgrims in Loreto from kissing his ring was due to a fear of spr

VATICAN CITY - Female staff members of the Vatican City’s monthly Donne Chiesa Mondo magazine have resigned en masse in protest against a “climate of distrust and

MELBOURNE - Cardinal George Pell who was found guilty of child sex abuse when he was a Catholic archbishop of Melbourne in the 1990s, has been sentenced to six years in prison with a non-parole per

VATICAN CITY – Argentine Bishop Gustavo Oscar Zanchetta, who is under investigation by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith following allegations of sexual coercion and misconduct involvi

ROME - “Those are the words, but where are the actions?” This was the indictment of Pope Francis and the Vatican delivered by Italian journalist and Vatican commentator Emiliano Fittipaldi that hel

ROME - Former parish priest of Carbonara di Rovolon, Don Roberto Cavazzana involved in the sex scandal organised by ex-priest of San Lazzaro Don Andrea Contin, will be reinstated into ministerial s

VATICAN CITY - The archbishop of Lyon and France's most senior figure in the Roman Catholic church, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, has been found guilty of covering up incidents of child sexual abuse

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis announced on Monday that the Vatican would open its archives on controversial Holocaust-era Pope Pius XII next year.

VATICAN CITY – The family of Emanuela Orlandi have submitted a formal request to the Vatican secretary of state Cardinal Pietro Parolin, appealing for the reopening of a burial recess at the Teuton

MELBOURNE – Cardinal George Pell has been found guilty of child sex abuse in Victoria’s county court in Australia.

ROME – Pope Francis has announced that he is to set up child protection task forces as he pledged “all out battle” against abuse. He condemned those who engage in abuse as "tools of satan."

ROME –  Leading Pennsylvania politician Mark Rozzi, nationally known for his unwavering defence of survivors of child sexual abuse, and himself a victim of rape at the hands of a priest, called for

ROME - On the eve of the Anti-Paedophilia Summit, French author of ‘Sodoma’ Frederic Martel spoke at the Eternal City’s Foreign Press Association, reiterating the claim pronounced in his book that

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has decided to defrock 88-year-old American ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick following the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s final decree of the trial that decl

PARIS – Italian bishop Luigi Ventura, papal nuncio to France, is under investigation for sexual assault accusations.