The Vatican introduced an anime-style mascot named Luce to represent Catholic pilgrims in the 2025 Jubilee year on Monday, ...

BEIJING — China and the Vatican have agreed to extend a provisional agreement on the appointment of Catholic bishops in China for four more years, officials said Tuesday. The 2018 agreement ...

VATICAN CITY — The number of Catholics and permanent deacons in the world rose in 2022, while the number of seminarians, priests, men and women in religious orders, and baptisms declined, according to ...

At the end of 2022, the number of Catholics in the world reached 1.389 billion, up 0.79% from 1.378 billion Catholics at the end of 2021, according to the Vatican's Central Office of Church ...

It was pushing noon after all. Perhaps a small shot. If Vatican this is, Baba Mondi, Charlemagne’s genial host, is the Holy Father. Donning a 12-sided hat as he greets visitors in the compound ...

The Office of the Bishop Diocese of Laredo announced the official dismissal of Rev. Michael (Juan Antonio) De Leon, pastor of Divine Mercy Catholic Church, after the Vatican rejected his appeal in ...

(photo: Julia Cassell/EWTN News / EWTN) The Vatican Museums this week unveiled one of its most celebrated acquisitions, the “Apollo Belvedere,” after years of intensive restoration work by ...

Stefano Costantino / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images The Vatican’s famous Apollo Belvedere—a marble statue of the Greek god of archery, music and dance—is finally back on public ...

Australia has committed up to $600 million over a decade to bolster PNG's pitch to secure a team in the competition, with the NRL set to make a final decision in coming weeks. But the ABC revealed ...

But Belgians weren't the only victims. From 1950 to 1970, the Vatican sent 3,500 Italian children to America on something called an orphan visa. The trouble was most were not orphans. Like their ...

The Vatican on Saturday published the schedule for Pope Francis’ consistory to create new cardinals, stating that the liturgy will take place on Dec. 7 — not Dec. 8, as previously announced.