Rushed preparations, soaring pilgrim numbers and underwhelming financial returns defined a Jubilee Year shaped by an ...

Pope Leo XIV waves after delivering the Urbi et Orbi Christmas blessing from the main balcony of St Peter's Basilica at the ...

The Canadian crooner delighted the Roman audience, drawn from the city and the world, whom he endearingly invited to sing ...

Monday, Dec. 8, marked the 60th anniversary of the close of the Second Vatican Council. It is an axiom among church historians that it takes a century for a council to be received, so we are almost ...

Faiths Vatican report says church teaching bars women deacons, but stops short of final ruling (RNS) — A Vatican-appointed commission says current church teaching does not allow women to be ordained ...

Vatican posts 1.6 mln euro surplus in 2024, the first for years Structural deficit shrinks to 44 mln euros, but still a concern Donations and asset sales drive positive result VATICAN CITY, Nov 26 ...

The Catholic Church has a long history of supporting environmental stewardship. This tradition got a recent boost. The late Pope Francis’ goal of powering the Vatican by 100% solar energy is happening ...

The Vatican is investigating a member of its Swiss Guards, who protect the pope, for allegedly making a spitting gesture at two Jewish women. The women were part of an international Jewish delegation ...

A new sculpture is set to arrive at Ave Maria University, honoring the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The piece, designed by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz, is expected to become part of ...

The Vatican has brought together an eclectic mix of thinkers and music artists as it seeks to influence both the development of artificial intelligence and the future of humanity. A summit held Friday ...

Each week, Colleen Dulle goes behind the headlines of the biggest Vatican news stories with America’s Rome correspondent Gerard O’Connell. They’ll break down complicated news stories that have a whole ...

ROME (AP) — Italy agreed Thursday to a Vatican plan to turn a 430-hectare (1,000-acre) field north of Rome, once the source of controversy between the two, into a vast solar farm that the Holy See ...