The world’s smallest sovereign state has a population of less than 800 and is surrounded by the city of Rome, but the Vatican ...

While many people around the world seek a blessing for their animals around the Oct. 4 feast of St. Francis of Assisi, in ...

Pope Francis will install Franciscan nun Raffaella Petrini as head of the General Secretariat of the Government of the State ...

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity began January 18. Once a major obstacle for other Christian churches, the primacy of ...

Pope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving a Peruvian-based Catholic movement, the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae ...

Pope Francis has hailed the release of Cuban prisoners as a “gesture of great hope” that he prays will be undertaken ...

Pope Francis expressed the hope that the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that came into effect on Sunday, Jan. 19, “would ...

The call from bestselling British novelist Robert Harris came out of the blue: “I write fiction but my project is extremely ...

Vatican City, the smallest country in the world, earned the unenviable title of Binsky’s least favourite European destination ...

Italian farmers brought their animals to the Vatican on Friday to be blessed by Cardinal Mauro Gambetti on the feast of St.

Francis spent much of the past decade in relatively good health but has dealt with several painful medical conditions over ...

Pope Francis has officially opened the Jubilee of Hope, which will see millions of pilgrims and tourist visiting the capital ...