Faiths Vatican report says church teaching bars women deacons, but stops short of final ruling (RNS) — A Vatican-appointed commission says current church teaching does not allow women to be ordained ...

François Pauly will succeed Jean-Baptiste de Franssu at helm of Institute for the Works of Religion. François Pauly, president-elect of the Board of Superintendence of the Institute for the Works of ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The Vatican announced a new campaign to urge divestment from mining activities, which Catholic Church leaders said enrich wealthy countries while leaving environmental damage and ...

The tech billionaire and co-founder of PayPal and Palantir has been holding Antichrist talks in Rome's Renaissance-era Palazzo Orsini Taverna that are rubbing the Vatican the wrong way Last year, ...

FILE - Mons. Angelo Becciu presides over an eucharistic liturgy at the St. John Lateran Basilica in Rome, Feb. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File) (Gregorio ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ROME (AP) — The Vatican appeals tribunal declared a mistrial Tuesday in the Holy See’s big “trial of the century,” a stunning blow ...

Three years ago, the Vatican’s criminal court convicted a cardinal for the first time in history. An appeals court has ruled there were irregularities in his prosecution. By Elisabetta Povoledo ...

ROME — The Vatican appeals tribunal declared a mistrial Tuesday in the Holy See’s big “trial of the century,” a stunning blow to both Pope Francis’ legacy and Vatican prosecutors who had put a ...

VATICAN CITY, March 4 (Reuters) - Jesus will still love you as you age, even if you have ‌a few wrinkles on your face, according to a Vatican ‌document issued on Wednesday. In a new text approved by ...

VATICAN CITY — Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgment” is getting a facial, with restorers removing a chalky white film of salt that has accumulated over the Renaissance masterpiece since its last major ...

ROME — A breakaway Catholic traditionalist group on Thursday rejected the Vatican’s offer of talks, suggesting a collision course with Pope Leo XIV over its planned consecrations of new bishops ...

The Vatican will not be part of President Trump’s Board of Peace overseeing the rehabilitation of the Gaza Strip, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin told reporters Wednesday. Parolin ...