VATICAN CITY – Returning from Geneva on Friday, having met with the leaders of Christian Churches, Pope Francis spoke about the urgent need for European countries to provide aid through the Marshal

ROME – LGBTQ issues, gender, migration, corruption, disabilities and drug trafficking will be some of the topics discussed at the Synod of Bishops scheduled for October, officials confirmed.

VATICAN CITY – During a mass at Santa Marta, Pope Francis spoke about the root of dictatorships, a reflection that some observers felt was directed at the Trump administration.

VATICAN CITY – Cardinal Leonard Burke has asked for the Italian bishops’ daily, the Avvenire, to issue a public apology for publishing an article that deeply offended him, officials say.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Juan Barros, Bishop of Osorno, and two other churchmen involved in the Chilean sexual abuse scandal, Vatican officials confirmed on Monda

ROME – On June 7 at 6.15 p.m. a “Prayer Vigil for Italy” will be held in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere.

ROME – The radical opposition group We Are Church International (WACI) has strongly rejected Archbishop Luis Ladaria’s claim that the ban on ordaining women to Catholic priesthood has a “definitive

ROME – Cardinal Toribio Ticona Porco, one of the new princes of the Church appointed by Pope Francis, is facing a wave of criticism in his native country of Bolivia for allegedly having a wife and

ROME - May 29 will be Australia Day at the Vatican Ethnological Museum because a hefty, handsome, illustrated volume on Australian aborigines is to be launched there.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis announced the promotion of 14 new Catholic cardinals, who’ll be officially appointed at his next consistory on June 29, Vatican officials confirm.

VATICAN CITY – Chilean bishops involved in a national sexual abuse scandal have all offered their resignations to Pope Francis, Vatican officials say.

Rome – Leaders of the radical opposition group, We Are Church International (WACI) have expressed serious concerns about the expansion of the Vatican Dicastery for Laity, calling them “ineffective”

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has released a document in which he criticises the capitalist system that he’s experienced throughout his five-year papacy. 

ROME – The Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Patriarchate, Monsignor Pierbattista Pizzaballa, has called for a period of fasting and prayer after the violence that led to the deaths of dozens of

ROME – Chilean-born activists and victims of sexual abuse, Juan Carlos Cruz, James Hamilton and José Andres Murillo, held a conference at the Foreign Press Association on Wednesday about their conv

VATICAN CITY – Giacomo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto was elected as the new Grand Master of the Sovereign Order of Malta on Wednesday, following a year-long spell as interim leader, the Ord

ROME – The father of terminally ill Alfie Evans has acknowledged that the battle is over for the transfer of his son to Italy where he has been offered medical treatment, in a statement by the pare

Rome – Pope Francis will travel to Bari on 7 July to meet with the heads of Middle Eastern Churches and Christian communities for a day of prayer and reflection, according to Vatican officials.