NORTHERN Samar Gov. Edwin Ongchuan led local officials and religious leaders in welcoming the Vatican Ambassador to the ...

The Holy Father told groups of pilgrims attending his Jan. 15 general audience that they should be aware that millions of ...

The Vatican has approved new guidelines from Italian bishops that allow gay men to enter seminaries as long as they abstain ...

ROME — An introspective Pope Francis has divulged some of the behind-the-scenes dynamics of the secret 2013 conclave that ...

The New York Times and other media outlets reported that the Italian bishops, approved by the Vatican, allowed gay men to ...

Vatican Secretary of State Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin Monday held a meeting with papal representatives in the Middle ...

Burch arrives in Rome with no diplomatic experience, a pattern typical for U.S. appointments to the Vatican. "Major countries with diplomatic ties to the Holy See usually send career diplomats ...

Pope Francis has baptised 21 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday under the ceiling frescoed by Michelangelo, in what has ...

Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, to become prefect of the department responsible for all the Catholic ...

Meeting more than 7,000 pilgrims who filled the Vatican audience hall or pressed against crowd-control barriers outside, ...

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