VATICAN CITY -- Pope Leo XIV climaxed his inauguration as pontiff Sunday by calling for Christian unity, pledging never to act as an autocrat "lording it over those entrusted" to him and appealing

 VATICAN CITY - Pope Leo XIV met privately on Wednesday with C

 VATICAN CITY - Pope Leo XIV appealed to the world’s major powers for “no more war” in his first Sunday message to crowds in St Peter’s Square since his election as pontiff.

  VATICAN CITY – With 5000 journalists from around the world covering the Conclave in the Eternal City to elect a new pope and his subsequent inauguration, desk s

 ROME-The first American Pope has spent over 12 years in Rome and has cultivated many friendships within the Church, and at a local pizzeria as well as supporting fervently the Roma football club.

VATICAN CITY – The Augustinians of the Santa Monica International College, Rome which was known as the spiritual "home" of the new pontiff, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who since yesterday was

  VATICAN CITY -- American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church Thursday, taking the name Leo XIV after a conclave of cardinals climaxed on the fo

  VATICAN CITY -- White smoke belched out of the Sistine Chapel chimney and the bells of St Peter's Basilica rang out Thursday signalling that cardinals had elected a new pope on the fourth vote of

VATICAN CITY - Nearly 5 months since the start of the Vatican’s Jubliee year, it’s presence can be felt amongst churches, businesses, packed streets and alleyways all across Rome and there has been

  VATICAN CITY – Cardinals began Wednesday what is expected to be a lengthy conclave cloistered in the Sistine Chapel to choose the next pope to lead the Roman Ca

VATICAN CITY – As the cardinals were beginning their period of seclusion, initiating the ancient rites of the conclave, it was reported that this year the Sistine Chapel had been completely ‘saniti

VATICAN CITY – Shortly before dying Pope Francis requested that the Popemobile, which is the one he used during his 2014 visit to Jerusalem, would be taken to Gaza to serve as a s

VATICAN CITY – Cardinal Pietro Parolin, former Secretary of State, who was presiding over the conclave as the oldest cardinal bishop elector appointed and a bookie favourite to become the next pope

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis had many admirers throughout his pontifical reign but in the process, he alienated some conservative prelates such Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, 77, the prefect emeri

VATICAN CITY - In the run up to the May Day workers' national holiday and during the conclave period, following the death of Pope Francis, the Association of Lay Employees of the Vatican – ADLV - i

 ROME - According to Anne Barrett Doyle, co-director of BishopAccount

VATICAN CITY – Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, who was convicted of fraud and embezzlement in Vatican court in 2023 has officially announced he will not enter Conclave on May 7, after initially co

 VATICAN CITY -- The conclave of cardinals to elect a new pontiff to succeed the late Pope Francis on St Peter's throne will begin on Wednesday May 7, the Vatican said Monday.