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

Because the Vatican has published very little over the centuries about its finances and investments, most people don't know how it makes money as a sovereign city-state with its own economy.

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

The Vatican has unveiled a new plucky pilgrim mascot for kids ahead of its Jubilee 2025 celebrations next year.

The mascot, named Luce — which means “light” in Italian — is intended to engage a younger audience and guide visitors through ...

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 ...

On a barge on Rome's River Tiber, a stone's throw from the Vatican, Loan Rocher was "ordained" in a secret ceremony in defiance of the Catholic Church's ban on women deacons and priests.

St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. (photo: 2016 Thoom / Shutterstock) Daniel Payne/CNA Vatican October 25, 2024 The Vatican has reprimanded the Swiss bishops for their handling of sexual abuse ...

Laura Itzkowitz While Vatican City is home to both the Roman Catholic Church's governing body and its leader, the pope, this small nation within Rome offers a wealth of attractions open to ...

(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 ...

Luce, he said, will also be the face of the Holy See’s pavilion at Expo 2025 in the Japanese city of Osaka. She will represent the Vatican’s pavilion theme, ‘Beauty Brings Hope,’ alongside ...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy leaves at the end of a Oct. 11 private meeting with Pope Francis at the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. (photo: Stefano Costantino/SOPA Images/LightRocket ...