Dec 5, 2020 - 07:35 am .- Pope Francis approved Saturday sweeping changes to the Vatican’s financial watchdog authority.

Dec 4, 2020 - 09:40 am .- The Vatican published Friday a guide with suggestions for Catholic bishops to promote unity with other Christian communities, and offering practical advice for how to overcome common challenges to ecumenism.

Dec 4, 2020 - 07:05 am .- Archbishop Georg Gänswein has denied media reports that Benedict XVI has lost his voice.

Dec 4, 2020 - 05:30 am .- Pope Francis accepted Friday the resignation of 76-year-old Canadian Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, S.J., and confirmed his successor as Archbishop of Ottawa-Cornwall. 

Dec 4, 2020 - 04:00 am .- Pope Francis has established the global network that promotes his monthly prayer intentions as a Vatican body.

Dec 3, 2020 - 03:00 pm .- Despite his attempts to fight his way back to credibility, there seems little prospect of a return to favor for the disgraced Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who is now effectively a cardinal-in-name-only.

Dec 3, 2020 - 06:05 am .- People with disabilities must have access to the sacraments, and as missionary disciples, the ability to be full and active participants in the life of their Catholic parish, Pope Francis said Thursday.

Dec 2, 2020 - 11:30 am .- Pope Francis said Wednesday that he was praying for Nigeria following a massacre of at least 110 farmers in which Islamist militants beheaded an estimated 30 people.

Dec 2, 2020 - 05:00 am .- Pope Francis’ Council of Cardinals met online Tuesday to continue work on the new apostolic constitution to govern the Roman Curia, according to a Vatican statement.

Dec 2, 2020 - 04:00 am .- Pope Francis said Wednesday that God does not wait for us to stop sinning to start loving us, but always holds out hope for the conversion of even the most hardened sinner.

Dec 1, 2020 - 01:00 pm .- Pope Francis said Tuesday that inculturated liturgy can teach Catholics to better appreciate the diverse gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Dec 1, 2020 - 05:45 am .- Pope Francis Tuesday appointed Bishop Michael Fisher, an auxiliary of Washington, to be the next bishop of the scandal-ridden Diocese of Buffalo, New York.

Dec 1, 2020 - 05:00 am .- Catholics are called to be God’s people, not God’s elite, Pope Francis said in a video message Monday.

Nov 30, 2020 - 04:00 pm .- Cardinal George Pell has spoken of his surprise at the apparent extent of “criminality” involved in recent Vatican financial scandals.

Nov 30, 2020 - 01:00 pm .- A statue of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal began Friday a pilgrimage to parishes throughout Italy, marking the 190th anniversary of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s appearance to St. Catherine Labouré in France.

Nov 30, 2020 - 12:00 pm .- The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will not visit Rome’s Piazza di Spagna this year for the traditional veneration of Mary on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception due to the pandemic.

Nov 30, 2020 - 09:00 am .- Pope Francis accepted Sunday the resignation of a Canadian Catholic bishop at the age of 64.

Nov 30, 2020 - 07:30 am .- Pope Francis met with Lebanon’s Maronite patriarch at the Vatican this weekend and told the pope of the challenges facing Lebanon as it experiences political instability and a “bitter economic crisis.”

Nov 30, 2020 - 06:30 am .- Pope Francis told the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Monday that he is confident that Catholics and Orthodox Christians will attain full communion.

Nov 29, 2020 - 08:30 am .- Pope Francis has asked people to pray for Ethiopia’s Tigray region, where the United Nations has said that “a full-scale humanitarian crisis is unfolding.”