Pope Francis opened a global Catholic summit on Wednesday with a warning that delegates should not seek to foist pet agendas ...

ANALYSIS: Roughly half of all cardinal-electors are currently in Rome, making the Synod on Synodality something of a prelude ...

It is absolutely unacceptable for a foreign head of state to make such statements about democratic decision-making in our ...

The Vatican Bank has fired two employees whose recent wedding violates a newly-introduced ban on marriages between staff.

Pope Francis' big Catholic reform project has opened with widespread calls for women to take up more positions of ...

Pope John Paul II praised Baudouin in a 1995 general audience in which he said that 'he was a great guardian of the rights of ...

Pope Francis on Tuesday led a prayer service asking forgiveness for the failings of the Catholic Church, including treatment ...

Kicking off the next phase of a closely-watched Vatican reform synod on Wednesday, Pope Francis urged delegates to focus on ...

The move was described as a “precaution” in the statement from the Vatican days before he is to embark on a trip to Belgium ...

While the pope’s position on abortion is not surprising and he has used the same exact words before, his remarks come at a ...

Pope opens month-long Vatican summit on future of Church Francis warns delegates not to foist agendas on assembly Pontiff also defends giving lay Catholics voting power Study groups to look at ...

The bank had previously donated around 50 million euros a year of its profits to the pope to pay for the Vatican bureaucracy, but profits have fallen in recent years.