Pope Francis is just a few weeks away from his 88th birthday, and plotting for his successor is well underway at the Vatican. Meanwhile, just across town in Rome, 'Conclave' a thriller filled with ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. New thriller ‘Conclave’ comes close to home for the Vatican as it arrives at Rome film fest Ralph ...

There’s something hilarious, and wonderful, about seeing actors you know striding importantly around a soundstage version of the Vatican while dressed in official cardinal garb. That’s the mag ...

A former Vatican leader who was excommunicated earlier this year has urged Catholics to back former President Trump, arguing that Vice President Harris will build the "most ferocious dictatorship ...

BEIJING—China and the Vatican have agreed to extend a provisional agreement on the appointment of Catholic bishops in China for four more years, officials said Tuesday. The 2018 agreement ...

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 ...

Pope Francis on Saturday appointed a longtime Vatican diplomat to be his papal envoy to Medjugorje, following the death of Polish Archbishop Henryk Hoser in August. Pope Francis on Saturday appointed ...

There is rejoicing that the Vatican has recognised the spiritual fruits of the alleged apparitions of Mary in a small town in ...

POPE Francis (center, back to camera) as he addresses participants during the opening of the synod’s first working session in the Vatican’s Paul VI Audience Hall October 2. In 2021 ...

“Never be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin too much. You can never love her more than Jesus did.” —St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe Our Lady of Velankanni is largely unknown in the West but she ...

VATICAN CITY — The number of Catholics and permanent deacons in the world rose in 2022, while the number of seminarians, priests, men and women in religious orders, and baptisms declined, according to ...

At the end of 2022, the number of Catholics in the world reached 1.389 billion, up 0.79% from 1.378 billion Catholics at the end of 2021, according to the Vatican's Central Office of Church ...