Conclave' draws the crowds at the Rome Film Festival near the Vatican, but is it too close to the bone for Pope Francis?View ...

With Pope Francis a few weeks away from his 88th birthday, the plotting for his successor is well underway at the Vatican.

Former Roman Catholic Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano penned an open letter urging American Catholics to support former ...

In the final days of the most significant Catholic gathering since the 1960s, the prospect of women being ordained appears ...

The Vatican, the smallest country in the world, has an economy shrouded in secrecy. Here are some little known facts that ...

Advocates for a greater role for women in the Catholic Church say Pope Francis is failing their cause at a global meeting of ...

The issue of women deacons had been a major theme of the current Vatican synod on how to make the Catholic Church more ...

The terms of the agreement have not been made public, though Pope Francis has said it includes a joint commission between the Chinese government and the Vatican on the appointment of Catholic ...

Relations were stymied over China’s insistence on its exclusive right to name bishops as a matter of national sovereignty, while the Vatican insisted the pope has the right to name the ...

Press conference for the presentation of the encyclical "Dilexit Nos" at the Vatican, Oct. 24, 2024. Credit: Julia Cassell/EWTN News Forte said Pope Francis’ magisterium is “far from being ...

Pope Francis at the first Mass of the new year in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Jan. 1, 2024. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – Pope Francis in a new encyclical stressed the social ...