Further reading: Nicaragua's Catholic Church faces 'systematic persecution ... Alvarez as well as other priests were deported to the Vatican in January 2024. Between April 2018 and August ...

VATICAN CITY (AP ... founder of the Roman Catholic Church. At noon, Francis will deliver the “Urbi et Orbi” — “To the City and the World” address, which serves as a summary of ...

Dec. 24 (UPI) --The pope inaugurated the Catholic Church's historic 2025 Jubilee of "Hope" at the Vatican on Christmas Eve in traditional ceremonies before addressing thousands of Catholic ...

The Vatican press office said 6,000 people were inside and ... Pope Francis chose “Pilgrims of Hope” as the theme for the Holy Year, which the Catholic Church celebrates every 25 years as a special ...

President-elect Trump will nominate Brian Burch to be U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. Burch lives in ... He added, "The Catholic Church is the largest and most important religious institution ...

Pope Francis told Vatican bureaucrats on Saturday to stop ... of the sins in the workplace at the headquarters of the Catholic Church. In the most biting edition, in 2014, Francis listed the ...

Brian loves his Church and the United States – He ... Burch] has been selected to be the next Ambassador to the Vatican,” his post on X read. “Brian has been a leading voice in the Catholic community ...

ROME (AP) — The Vatican has taken the first main step to implement Pope Francis’ wish that Belgium’s late king be beatified for having abdicated for a day rather than approve legislation to ...

The Vatican, also known as the "Holy See," is the center of the Roman Catholic Church, which is led by Pope Francis. There are roughly 52 million Catholics in the U.S. Burch, a father of nine ...

A view of St. Peter’s Square is pictured at the Vatican, Oct. 20, 2024 ... have nine children and live in the Chicago suburbs. “Brian loves his Church and the United States - He will make us all proud ...

(AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Friday said he’s nominating the president of the advocacy group CatholicVote to be the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican ... loves his Church and the ...