VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis is set to travel to four countries in South-East Asia for his 45^th Apostolic Journey, the Holy See has said.

  VATICAN CITY -- Vatican Gendarmes are investigating the death of an American student found hanged in the bathroom of a student dormitory in the Vatican Territory, police have said. 

  ROME -- A Japanese businessman has died in the northern Italian city of Udine after intervening to try stop a fight and being set on by a gang of Italian and Ukrainian thugs, police have said. 

  VATICAN CITY -- Monsignor Carlo Maria Viganò, a conservative priest, has been summoned to the Vatican after being accused by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of t

  ROME -- Pope Francis urged the mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri Monday to pull his left-wing socks up and use the opportunity of next year's special Jubilee to i

  VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has made what the Italian press are calling a second blunder this week, allegedly suggesting that “gossip is women’s stuff, we wear the trousers, we must say things,”

  VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has now apologised after allegedly claiming there was “too much faggotry” in the seminaries during a speech to 200 Italian bishops, as reported in Dagospia and confir

  ROME -- London-born teenager, Carlo Acutis, is set to become a saint after being attributed a second miracle. 

  VATICAN CITY -- Securing a doctor's appointment may prove even more challenging this week, as over 300 physicians are expected to arrive at the Vatican on Satur

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis proclaimed the upcoming Jubilee Year 2025 at a ce

  VATICAN CITY -- A priest, dressed in the traditional cassock, was arrested on Sunday morning in the Vatican City after security came across his assortment of illegal weapons.

 VATICAN CITY -- During Pope Francis’ Wednesday General Audience, he compared the cardinal virtue of temperance to sipping a good wine, rather than drinking it all at once. 

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis addressed worshipers gathered in St Peter’s Square on Sunday during his traditional Easter urbi et orbi (to the city and the world), calling for the end to fig

 VATICAN CITY – More concern has been raised over Pope Francis’s health after he failed to read the homily on Palm Sunday.

 ROME — In Pope Francis’ wide-ranging memoir, out this week, the pontiff writes that thanks to a new Vatican inquest into Emanuela Orlandi’s disappearance, “light will be shed on this story, and th

 ROME -- Pope Francis has announced that many of the key issues from th

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis called for Ukraine to find “the courage of the white flag” and negotiate with Russia to end the war, the Vatican said.

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis spoke out about sexual abuse of children in the Church during an audience with the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors on Thursday, the Vatican said.

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis called once more for peace and an end to the suffering of people in Ukraine and the Holy Land during his general audience on Wednesday.

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis was taken to the Gemelli hospital in Rome on Wednesday for a CAT scan of his lungs, the Vatican said.

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis cancelled all engagements on Saturday after the Vatican said he was suffering from a mild flu.

 VATICAN CITY – Tensions between the Holy See and Israel have risen after Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin called on Israel to stop the “carnage” in Gaza, leading to the Israeli Ambassado

 VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis ended his General Audience on Ash Wednesday by urging care and prayer for “the war-torn Ukraine, Palestine, and Israel who suffer so much,” and for “intensifying prayer

 VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis accused critics of his blessing gay Catholics of “hypocrisy” on Wednesday.