ROME - After the Vatican’s controversial note to the Italian government on Tuesday requesting modifications to the proposed new law

  VATICAN CITY - In an unprecedented move, the Holy See has lodged a formal diplomatic protest against new laws proposed

ROME - Pope Francis has been thanked for “giving hope” after meeting a group of inmates from the maximum security Rebibbia prison. 

  VATICAN CITY – The President of Georgia, Salome Zourabichvili, was on Friday received by Pope Francis in a private audience in the Apostolic Palace.

  VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has rejected Cardinal Reinhard Marx's resignation letter, saying that "Taking up the crisis, personally and communally, is the only fruitful path.”

  CHIAVENNA - Sister Maria Laura Mainetti, the nun stabbed to death by three teenage girls during a Satanic ritual, has been beatified by Pope Francis, according to Holy See sources.

  ROME - At last John Cornwell has found a pope he likes and admires, Francis, and he explains why in this book, after others on why he did not like John Paul II or Benedict XVI.

  VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis received the athletics team of the Vatican City at a private audience on Saturday, discussing the "culture of fraternity" at the Ath

  VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis on Tuesday expressed his condolences to the families of 14 people killed in a cable car crash in northern Italy.

  VATICAN CITY - The employees of the Holy See have signed an unprecedented petition protesting recent pay cuts legislated by Pope Francis

  ROME - With the violence in Gaza escalating at an alarming rate, much of the international community are stepping up efforts to fight for a ceasefire.

  VATICAN CITY - Speaking after his weekly Angelus address from the window of his study in the Apostolic Palace, Pope Francis on Sunday spoke to the faithful gathered in St Peter's Square condemnin

  VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis received in the Apostolic Palace on Friday a delegation of the Scouts Unitaires

  VATICAN CITY - The Catholic Church in Germany is in crisis.

  VATICAN CITY - Speaking during his first face-to-face general audience with pilgrims this year, Pope Francis paid tribute to his predecessor John Paul II, recalling that Thursday is the 40th anni

  VATICAN CITY - Speaking after his Regina Caeli address on Sunday from the window of the Apsotolic Palace, Pope Francis spoke of his concern about the violence going on in Jerusalem, after clashes

   VATICAN CITY - Speaking in the Pope Video for May, Pope Francis laments that “the true economy, the one that creates work, is in crisis.” 

  VATICAN CITY - In the last week, Pope Francis has issued two Apostolic Letters, both in the form of motu proprios, legal documents issued personally by the pontiff, which outline several new legi

  VATICAN CITY - Speaking on Raitre’s ‘Report’, the Holy See’s former Auditor General, Libero Milone, said “for over 20 years, up to 2016, the Vatican invested in an industry that produces the morn

  VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has harshly condemned the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean - in which well over 100 migrants are thought to have drowned after a shipwreck - saying, "I confess that

    NAPLES - Observing, thinking and then writing. These are the three stages that for more than 30 years have characterised my poetic production.

  ROME - An Italian magistrate has ordered the arrest of the broker Gianluigi Torzi on charges of fraudulent billing, money laundering and other financial crimes, for his involvement in the scandal

  VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has sent his condolences to Queen Elizabeth for the death of her husband, Prince Philip, on Friday. 

  VATICAN CITY - In the April edition of Pope Francis' monthly Pope Video, the Holy Father focused on the fight for "fundamental human rights," and urged all Catholics to pray for those "actively c

  TUBINGEN - The Swiss theologian and priest Hans Küng, thought to be the greatest threat to the Catholic church since Martin Luther, has died in Germany aged 93.