Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin and other Holy See leaders have shared their well wishes for the U.S.

The UN recognizes 193 countries. If you include the non-member observer states of Palestine and the Vatican City, then there are 195. The FIFA football list has 211 members. If we add disputed ...

Pope Francis' tour spread compassion and fraternity in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, and Singapore ...

The space, inaugurated Oct. 31, is intended to provide practical, artistic, and spiritual information to visitors of the ...

After a Vatican summit on the future of the Catholic Church that ended without enacting any major reforms, Pope Francis is ...

The centre of Rome is easy to navigate on foot, and being here alone means you can enjoy the sights at your own pace. I would ...

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 ...

China and the Vatican recently renewed their agreement on bishop appointments, this time for four years. What does that mean for the Catholic Church in China – and for Taiwan?

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 ...

Although the story is complex, it boils down to this: The alleged mastermind, Polish-Canadian Marek Rejniak, convinced ...

Vientiane is Laos’ biggest city. One of two main gateways to the only land-locked country in Southeast Asia, travelers, especially those on an extended Indo-China adventure, have mixed views on ...