Planning a trip to Italy this year? You’re likely going to have to consider your plans a bit more than in previous years, as this one’s special: it’s the Jubilee Year, a Roman Catholic religious event ...

The head of Vatican City had been unwell for a while now, suffering from bronchitis, whose symptoms are more complicated in ...

ROME — Another woman is taking over a top management job in the Vatican : Sister Raffaella Petrini, an Italian nun, was named ...

Pope Francis was being treated in a hospital in Rome for bronchitis and to have medical examinations, the Vatican said Friday, the latest in a string of ailments that have raised concerns about the 88 ...

Thanking members of the military and the police for their service, Pope Francis asked them to be on guard against seeing ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has added the feast day of St. Teresa of Kolkata, a “beacon of hope” and an example of ...

A handout picture provided by the Vatican Media shows Pope Francis meeting ... reiterating a statement he had made previously: that the church is governed by the head and heart and “not with ...

The Vatican allows Catholic marriages to take place in the Chapel of the Choir in St. Peter’s Basilica and in the small city ...

Kennedy, the first Catholic President of the United States ... an alignment between post-World War II America and the church of Vatican II — at least from a sociological and cultural point ...

The Vatican's Arizona location dates back to 1980, when the Vatican partnered with the University of Arizona to study the ...