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

On Tuesday the Vatican announced that after just two weeks since Pope Francis inaugurated the Jubilee of Hope on Christmas Eve, over half a million pilgrims have already come to participate in the ...

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

St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, an architectural marvel and spiritual epicenter, is traditionally believed to house Peter’s tomb beneath its soaring dome. Yet underneath this grand ...

"Each time a pope takes ill, the winds of a conclave always feel as if they are blowing," Francis writes in his new memoir, ...

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

As the Jubilee year kicks off in Rome, more than half a million visitors have flocked to the Vatican to walk through the Holy ...

While many people around the world seek a blessing for their animals around the Oct. 4 feast of St. Francis of Assisi, in Italy the traditional date to pray for the protection of one's pets and ...

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

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

During his Angelus address on Jan. 19, 2025, at the Vatican, Pope Francis thanked those who mediated the latest ceasefire in ...

Over 9,000 Catholic journalists from various parts of the world will pass through the Holy Door of St. Peter's. The first jubilee event on the agenda is dedicated to the world of communication, ...