VATICAN CITY: It has been a wretched year for Pope Francis, whose blind spot on clergy sex abuse conspired with events beyond his control to threaten his...
ROME: Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, who won Oscars with “The Last Emperor” and whose erotic drama “Last Tango in Paris” enthralled and shocked the...
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis opens a monthlong meeting of bishops Wednesday on engaging young Catholics as his church is again under fire for the way it covered...
VATICAN CITY: Revelations that a prominent U.S. cardinal sexually abused and harassed his adult seminarians have exposed an egregious abuse of power that has...
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has taken measures to address a spiraling sex abuse scandal in Chile, but he hasn’t moved on a problem closer to home: Vatican City...
VATICAN CITY: Whenever Pope Francis visits prisons, during his whirlwind trips to the world’s peripheries or at a nearby jailhouse in Rome, he always tells...
ROME: The Vatican, Versace and Vogue are joining forces to show off Catholic influences in fashion. The Vatican’s Culture Minister joined Donatella Versace...
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis once again used a Christmas greeting to dress down Vatican officials Thursday, denouncing the “cancer” of cliques and how...
VATICAN CITY: The Vatican newspaper has broken a yearlong silence and weighed in on director Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Young Pope,” giving the series generally...
VATICAN CITY: Other than St. Peter’s Basilica, there is hardly better real estate in Vatican City than the sprawling penthouse apartment in the Vatican...
ROME: When doctors and nurses at the Vatican’s showcase children’s hospital complained in 2014 that corners were being cut and medical protocols ignored, the...
VATICAN CITY/ FATIMA, Portugal: When Pope Francis travels to the Portuguese town of Fatima this weekend, he will be lending his blessing to a religious...
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis is facing a religious and diplomatic balancing act as he heads to Egypt this weekend, hoping to comfort its Christian community...
VATICAN CITY: When Pope Francis canonizes Mother Teresa Sunday, he’ll be honoring a nun who won admirers around the world and a Nobel Peace Prize for her...
ABOARD THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER GARIBALDI: The leaders of Italy, France and Germany vowed Monday to boost joint European security efforts in the wake of Islamic...
ROME: It’s a story almost too fantastical to be true. A flea market dealer finds a painting near a subway trash bin, submits it to laboratory analysis...
ROME: A 7-year-old Syrian girl suffering from a rare form of eye cancer arrived in Italy Thursday, the first of an estimated 1,000 refugees who are being...
VATICAN CITY: The Vatican is disputing a U.S. film studio’s claim that the pope is making his motion picture debut, saying no scenes were shot for the venture...
SANTIAGO, Cuba: Pope Francis ends his visit to Cuba Tuesday with a Mass at the country's most revered shrine and a pep talk with families before flying...
VATICAN CITY: The Vatican's former ambassador to the Dominican Republic, who had been charged by church prosecutors with sexually abusing children in the...
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE: Pope Francis is calling for the peace process in Colombia to go ahead and is offering the Holy See's assistance if it might...
QUITO, Ecuador: Pope Francis wraps up the first leg of a three-nation South American pilgrimage Wednesday after issuing an impassioned call for a new economic...
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador: Pope Francis received a hero's welcome in Ecuador's biggest city Monday as he celebrated the first public Mass of his South American tour,...
VATICAN CITY: The embattled archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis, and a deputy bishop resigned Monday after prosecutors there charged the archdiocese with...
ROME: Italian officials say an Italian doctor kidnapped in Libya in January has been freed.An official at the Foreign Ministry, speaking on condition of...