The Vatican has introduced Luce, its first-ever anime mascot Luce. Luce — meaning “light” in Italian — will serve as the ...

Because the Vatican has published very little over the centuries about its finances and investments, most people don't know ...

The Vatican's introduction of Luce, its mascot for the 2025 Jubilee Year, led to a flood of fan art commemorating the cute anime character and her sidekick, a dog named Santino. Archbishop Fisichella ...

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.

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 ...

Vatican City imposes a dress code that requires knees and upper arms to be covered. This means shorts, short skirts and sleeveless tops are prohibited. Short- or long-sleeved dresses that fall ...

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 ...

The Vatican hired an artist who had previously worked on designs for sex toys to create its new mascot, it has emerged.

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 ...

Pope Francis on Thursday told employees of the Vatican's extensive multi-language media operations to expect budget cuts as part of wider belt-tightening efforts that have recently targeted cardinals.

Vatican Tribunal Defends Conviction of Senior Cardinal for Misappropriation of Funds By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A Vatican tribunal on Wednesday defended its 2023 decision to ...