Pope Leo XIV welcomes new ambassadors to the Vatican during an audience in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace Dec. 6, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) Pope Leo XIV welcomes new ambassadors to ...

VOV.VN - Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Van Duoc on December 5 received Archbishop Marek Zalewski ...

Kieran Tapsell argues that Pope Leo XIV must resume the Holy See's dialogue with the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

As America's Pope Leo XIV begins his reign at the head of the world's smallest country, this Catholic sovereign city-state's financial and economic challenges wait to be addressed. It may take more ...

Through the new chirograph Vinculum Unitatis et Caritatis, the Holy Father is eliminating the current Commissio de Donationibus (Donations Commission) structure created in February by Pope Francis to ...

A Vatican commission has yet to take a firm decision on whether women could become deacons, but the answer for now remains no ...

Italy agreed July 31 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 hopes will ...

VATICAN CITY — As a gathering of LGBTQ+ Catholic pilgrims approached the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica on Saturday, a chant went up. A hymn with a resounding refrain. “We are here.” During the ...

ROME (AP) — Another woman is taking over a top management job in the Vatican: Sister Raffaella Petrini, an Italian nun, was named Saturday as president of the Vatican City State, making her ...

The Vatican, the smallest state in the world, possesses a unique and complex legal, administrative, and spiritual structure designed to guarantee the independence of the pope and allow the Church to ...