A young Italian couple has gone to court in the Vatican tribunal to challenge a new ban on workplace marriages imposed by the Vatican bank.

The pope’s comments provided the latest indication of a potential rekindling of frictions between the Vatican and the next Trump White House.

Templars Today, a private association of lay faithful, signed an agreement with the Vatican’s Dicastery for Evangelization to assist jubilee pilgrims in Rome.

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

ROME — Pope Francis on Sunday hailed the release of Cuban prisoners as a “gesture of great hope” that he prayed would be undertaken elsewhere, as he welcomed an agreement the Vatican helped facilitate as part of a three-way dialogue with Washington ...

Pope Francis has warned of the “scourge of anti-semitism” in his prayer on the eve of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, noting it marks 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concen

ROME — Pope Francis said Donald Trump’s plans to impose mass deportations of immigrants would be a “disgrace,” as he weighed in on the US president’s pledges nearly a decade after ...

The president of Haiti’s transitional presidential council said that the Trump administration’s decisions to freeze aid programs, deport migrants and block refugees will be “catastrophic.”

Constantly in the public eye, Pope Francis is instantly recognisable across the globe, and his likeness adorns t-shirts, mugs, calendars, bookmarks, medals and jewellery, among other things. Too conservative for some, not conservative enough for others, he is the face of the modern Catholic Church.

Speaking to Church communications professionals the pope emphasized the need for a human-centered approach to communication.

“The church in America agrees more with Trump than with Pope Francis,” Gorelick said during a conference at the Center for American Studies in Rome to promote the book “The Throne and the Altar,” by Italian journalist Maria Antonietta ...

SCIAF – the official aid agency of the Catholic Church in Scotland – has been congratulated on 60 years of service to the world’s poor by Pope Francis. Pope Francis sent a Papal blessing all the way from Rome to the humanitarian charity,