The Vatican is considering a meeting between the Pope and the Russian Patriarch in Jerusalem.
Two sources told Reuters on Monday that the Vatican is considering extending Pope Francis' trip to Lebanon in June so that he might travel to...
Why the Pope’s visit to Iraq is of symbolic importance
Pope Francis’s trip to the Middle East has illustrated the drive for coexistence that is possible in the region. During a visit to Iraq, the...
Pope to miss events due to new flare up of leg pain -Vatican
Pope Francis has suffered a renewed flare-up of a sciatica condition that causes pain in his leg, forcing him to miss three events in the...
Former head of Vatican bank guilty of embezzlement, money laundering
Caloia, 81, was president of the bank, officially known as the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR) between 1999 and 2009. A Swiss Guard is...
Vatican permits use of COVID-19 vaccines made using aborted fetal tissue
The Vatican told Roman Catholics on Monday that it was morally acceptable to use COVID-19 vaccines even if their production employed cell lines drawn from...
Vatican permits use of COVID-19 vaccines made using aborted fetal tissue
The Vatican told Roman Catholics on Monday that it was morally acceptable to use COVID-19 vaccines even if their production employed cell lines drawn from...
Pope snubs Vatican’s sci-fi Nativity scene, directs visitors to others
Pope Francis on Sunday appeared to add his own thumbs-down to widespread criticism of an unorthodox nativity scene in St. Peter’s Square, telling visitors to...
Pope cancels traditional pre-Christmas ceremony due to COVID-19
Thousands of people usually line the streets near the area to see the pope and pray with him. The Vatican City is seen on August...
Pope installs new cardinals, including first African-American
Pope Francis on Saturday installed 13 new cardinals, including the first African-American to hold the high rank, further expanding the pontiff’s impact on the group...
After McCarrick report, pope vows to ‘uproot evil’ of clerical sexual abuse
Pope Francis, in his first public comment after the release of an explosive report on the Vatican’s mishandling of the case of ex-U.S. Cardinal Theodore...
COVID-19 case confirmed in pope’s Vatican residence
Three Vatican residents who tested positive recently have recovered, Saturday's statement added. Pope Francis arrives for the first weekly general audience to readmit the public...
‘Cardinal’s woman’ arrested in Italy after 500,000-euro payment
The payments to Cecilia Marogna came from Cardinal Angelo Becciu, whom Pope Francis abruptly removed from his role last month over suspected misuse of funds...
Italian woman in Vatican financial scandal investigation arrested
A 39-year-old Italian woman was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the Vatican’s latest financial scandal, police said. Cecilia Marogna had worked for Cardinal Angelo...
Four Vatican Swiss Guards test positive for COVID-19
Four members of the Vatican Swiss Guards, the elite and colourfully dressed corps that protects the pope, have tested positive for COVID-19, the Vatican said...
Ex Pope Benedict’s condition ‘not particularly worrying’: Vatican
The Vatican, responding to a German newspaper report that former Pope Benedict XVI was seriously ill, said on Monday his condition was “not particularly worrying”...
Pope ‘very pained’ by decision to turn Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia museum into mosque
FILE PHOTO: Police officers walk in front of Hagia Sophia, or Ayasofya-i Kebir Camii, in Istanbul, Turkey, July 11, 2020. REUTERS/Murad Sezer VATICAN CITY (Reuters)...
Vatican’s new financial regulator vows transparency
The Vatican’s new financial regulator says he is confident that the days when the Holy See would “wash dirty laundry” in private are over and...