VATICAN CITY -- In this Jubilee year, Pope Francis is opening another service for the homeless in his tiny city state, to add to the ones already on offer there will be also be a doctor’

 VATICAN CITY -- A seven-months-pregnant woman working as Pope Francis' receptionist secretary has been discovered dead in her apartment in Rome, where her body had been for several days before bei

ROME -- Speaking to reporters on his trip back from Mexico, Pope Francis spoke out against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and some of his policies, saying that they are “

MORELIA -- Pope Francis has spoken out against drug trafficking in Mexico.  The head of the Catholic Church does not like to give up, and in the fight against drugs he won’t.  In his vie

 ROME -- Pope Francis departed for Cuba on Friday morning on the first leg of his 12th international papal voyage, where he is set to make a stop off for a historic meeting with Russian Orthodox pa

 ROME -- The body of Padre Pio, known formally as St.

 VATICAN CITY -- Marking Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent, Pope Francis spoke in Saint Peter’s Square calling for a redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor.

 VATICAN CITY --  Haydar al-Abadi, the Prime Minister of Iraq had a private audience with Pope Francis to discuss the plight of embattled Christians in Iraq, Vatican sources said,

 VATICAN CITY -- Australian Cardinal George Pell, accused of covering up cases of paedophilia and sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic c

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has decided not to visit Mexican paedophilia victims who asked to meet him on his upcoming trip to the country

 VATICAN CITY – Peter Saunders, member and active critic of the Pontifical Commission on the abuse of minors, has refuted the Vatican’

 ROME -- There is to be a change of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Holy See, with Mrs Sally Axworthy MBE to take up her appointment during Augu

 ROME -- By his gestures towards the marginalised, Pope Francis helps people see God’s love  as proclaimed by Christianity.  But at times his words cause confusion which, according to the American

 VATICAN CITY --  Pope Francis will have an historic meeting with Russian Orthodox patriarch Kirill in a move towards greater reconciliation between the two churches, the Vatican announced Friday. 

 ROME -- Tens of thousands of Jubilee pilgrims have lined up to see the remains of Padre Pio in various locations in Rome, with queue waiting

 VATICAN CITY -- The Pope is soon to visit the Mosque of Rome, in an event that has been in the planning for around ten months.

 VATICAN CITY -- The presence of a 'gay lobby' in the Vatican has been acknowledged by Honduran cardinal Oscar Maradiaga, when confronted wit

 VATICAN CITY -- In April of this year, for the first ever time, one of Shakespeare's works will be performed in full in the Vatican, commemorating the fourth centenary of the writer's death.

 VATICAN CITY -- Whilst for some the first Monday back after the New Year meant a return to the grind of the office, one man saw the opportunity t