Vatican News
Archbishop Viganò urges US bishops to be 'courageous shepherds'
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò sent Tuesday a message to the bishops of the United States, who are holding a plenary... Read more
Archbishop Scicluna named adjunct secretary of CDF
Pope Francis Tuesday appointed Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta as adjunct secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the... Read more
Pope Francis to visit Morocco in 2019
Pope Francis will head to two cities in Morocco March 30-31, 2019, the Vatican announced Tuesday. Read more
Vatican Christmas stamps feature artwork by inmate
The artwork featured on the Vatican’s postage stamps for Christmas 2018 were painted by a man serving a life-sentence in... Read more
Science should serve humanity, Pope Francis says
Pope Francis told a group of scientists Monday to use their knowledge for the benefit of all humanity, especially at... Read more
Pope Francis marks World War I centenary with message of peace
The bells of St. Peter’s Basilica rang out in unison with thousands of other church bells around the world Sunday... Read more
Pope Francis warns Catholic journalists against pessimism
Catholic journalists should be guided not by despair and negativity, but by a commitment to sharing the beauty of the... Read more
Francis makes appointments to Roman Rota, Vatican Court of Appeal
Pope Francis appointed Thursday two lay lawyers to tribunals of the Holy See and Vatican City. Read more
Wisconsin native and Guatemalan martyr: Br. James Miller to be beatified
Pope Francis Thursday approved the beatification of American Br. James Miller, who was martyred in 1982 in Guatemala. Read more
Cardinal O'Brien: Don't let Holy Land become a 'museum'
Cardinal Edwin O’Brien, Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre, told journalists Wednesday that the order of... Read more
Pope says entrepreneurship needed in face of 'scandalous poverty'
“If there is hunger on earth, it is not because food is missing!” Pope Francis said in St. Peter’s Square... Read more
Will Pope Francis have an impact on Orthodoxy’s Ukraine dispute?
The Russian Orthodox Church announced that it has withdrawn from a Vatican sponsored Commission for Catholic – Orthodox Theological Dialogue,... Read more
Pope Francis: 'A Christian cannot be an anti-Semite'
Pope Francis strongly condemned anti-Semitism, recalling the living memory of the Holocaust in Europe, during a meeting with rabbis at... Read more
Pope Francis mourns victims of attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt
“I pray for the victims, pilgrims killed just because they are Christians, and I ask Holy Mary to console their... Read more
Pope Francis offers Mass for souls of 163 deceased cardinals, bishops
Nine cardinals and 154 bishops have died since November 2017, including Cardinal Bernard Law, the former archbishop of Boston, and... Read more
Mother Clelia Merloni, ‘a woman of pardon,’ to be beatified
Mother Clelia Merloni, a 20th-century Italian religious sister and founder of the women’s institute of the Apostles of the Sacred... Read more
Pope on All Saints' Day: Live for heaven, not the world
If a Christian wants to reach heaven, he or she should ask themselves if they are living for the pleasures... Read more
Renovation at Vatican embassy in Rome uncovers human remains
Human bone fragments have been discovered during the renovation of a building connected to the Holy See’s apostolic nunciature in... Read more
Pope Francis calls faithful married love 'revolutionary'
Faithful married love, in which a husband loves his wife like Christ loves the Church, is “revolutionary,” Pope Francis said... Read more
Vatican cites immunity in refusal to send French court summons to CDF prefect
The Vatican has invoked diplomatic immunity in refusing to deliver a French court summons to the prefect of the Congregation... Read more
