Pope Francis' longest and farthest trip has proven that despite his age, ailments and eight hours of jet lag, Pope Francis can still pull off an ambitious trip to Asia
September 15, 2024
Pope Francis has offered extensive praise for China at the end of a trip through Asia
September 13, 2024
Pope Francis has weighed in on the latest sex assault revelations that have further discredited a legendary French priest, Abbe Pierre
September 13, 2024Pope Francis has strongly criticized both U.S. presidential candidates over what he calls anti-life policies on abortion and migration
September 13, 2024
Pope Francis is concluding his visit to Singapore by praising its tradition of interfaith harmony
September 13, 2024
Pope Francis has praised Singapore’s economic development as a testament to human ingenuity
September 12, 2024
Pope Francis has indirectly acknowledged the abuse scandal in East Timor involving its bishop and Nobel Peace Prize-winning independence hero
September 09, 2024
Pope Francis has arrived in the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea
September 07, 2024
Pope Francis has called for the Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea to be particularly close to women who have been abused and marginalized
September 07, 2024
Pope Francis is making the longest, farthest and most challenging trip of his pontificate when he goes to Asia and Oceania this week
September 01, 2024
British tech magnate Mike Lynch and several other people are missing after their luxury superyacht sank during a freak storm off Sicily, Italy’s civil protection and authorities said
August 19, 2024
The recently opened archives of Pope Pius XII are providing details about the scandal over the founder of the Legionaries of Christ
July 21, 2024
The Knights of Columbus, an influential Catholic charitable organization, says it will cover up its mosaics made by a famous ex-Jesuit artist accused of abusing women
July 11, 2024The Vatican says its doctrine office will be preparing a document on women in leadership roles in the Catholic Church, as part of a new initiative to respond to longstanding demands by women to have a greater say in the church's life
July 09, 2024
The Vatican’s chief prosecutor has strongly defended the integrity and fairness of the city state’s justice system
July 08, 2024
The Vatican has excommunicated its former ambassador to the United States after finding him guilty of schism
July 05, 2024
Police have arrested an Italian farm owner after one of his workers, an undocumented laborer from India, bled to death after his arm was cut off by farm equipment
July 02, 2024
Newly discovered correspondence in the Vatican archives suggests that Pope Pius XII had detailed information from a trusted German Jesuit that up to 6,000 Jews and Poles were being gassed each day in German-occupied Poland
September 16, 2023
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni is vowing to take “extraordinary measures” to deal with an influx of migrants
September 15, 2023
The pope's top adviser on fighting sex abuse is urging Vatican offices to stop displaying artwork by an ex-Jesuit artist
June 28, 2024
Pope Francis has decreed that an area of northern Rome long used by Vatican Radio will now house a field of solar panels to fuel Vatican City
June 26, 2024
The Vatican is standing trial in a London court over a property deal
June 26, 2024
The Vatican has unveiled a groundbreaking project for the upcoming Venice Biennale of Art: It is mounting a multimedia installation inside Venice’s Giudecca women’s prison
March 11, 2024
Pope Francis has exposed the political “maneuvers” used to sway votes during the two most recent elections of popes in a book-length interview
April 02, 2024
Pope Francis has removed from office the bishop of Tyler, Texas
November 11, 2023
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Hundreds of parachutists drop over Dutch heath to commemorate World War II operation
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