With the Holy Year 2025 beginning on Christmas Eve, the Vatican's 2024 Christmas stamps feature the Jubilee message of hope ...

The statue of the Virgin chosen by the Vatican to represent hope during the opening of the Jubilee comes from Battipaglia, a center particularly renowned for buffalo mozzarella. The 19th-century ...

Advocates for survivors called it an exercise in obfuscation. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Vatican City Ten years after it was established, a Vatican commission on clerical sexual abuse ...

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican is cutting the already shrinking pay packages of cardinals who head the Catholic Church's top offices in Rome by about 10% or 500 euros ($540) a month as the pope ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis told members and staff of the Dicastery for Communication that the Vatican and the Catholic Church need their expertise to share the Gospel, but he also asked ...

Following the discovery of the statue in Rome in 1489 ... were ordered to appear before the Vatican City State’s tribunal on March 9. A man visiting the Vatican museums in Rome on Wednesday ...

I then set off on my mission: to explore as much of Rome and the Vatican City as I could in 48 hours. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week ...

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican’s most highly anticipated gathering since the 1960s ended Saturday with the thorniest issues facing the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics largely unanswered. The Synod ...

(RNS) – Pope Francis asked the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors to draft a report to promote ‘transparency and accountability.’ VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A report published ...

VATICAN CITY - After a Vatican summit on the future of the Catholic Church that ended without enacting any major reforms, Pope Francis is facing questions about whether his 11-year papacy is ...

secretive First commission report makes numerous recommendations Commission criticised in the past for being toothless Abuse tracking group says new report is 'window dressing' VATICAN CITY ...

The kawaii character comes at a contentious time for the Catholic church. Ten years ago, the Vatican created a commission on clerical sexual abuse, and the group published its first report on Tuesday.