President William Ruto has established embassies in the Vatican City and two other foreign nations Cabinet endorsed the ...

Vatican and German bishops held their fourth meeting Wednesday to discuss the statute of a proposed “synodal conference” in ...

The Vatican is going Hollywood this weekend. Or, perhaps more accurately, Hollywood is going Vatican.

The Octagonal Courtyard of the Pio-Clementine Museum houses the oldest and most storied part of the Vatican’s vast collection ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American pope, has died at age 88. His papacy was marked by efforts to modernize the Catholic Church, generating both support and criticism. He appointed a significant ...

Construction workers in Italy have discovered a 2,000-year-old garden that once belonged to a Roman emperor. The travertine walls of the garden overlook the banks of the Tiber, a river that cuts ...

Not long after I arrived in town as the National Catholic Reporter's Vatican correspondent, I attended a farewell dinner for a Roman Curia official who had served here for almost a decade. It was the ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has developed pneumonia in both lungs, the Vatican said Tuesday, after new tests showed a further complication in the condition of the 88-year-old pontiff. The Vatican said ...

Leading advocates for victims of clergy sex abuse are directing their criticism beyond U.S. Roman Catholic bishops to the highest levels of the church. They're now accusing Vatican leaders of hiding ...

Infrastructural work in Rome has turned up yet another archaeological discovery: the Italian Ministry of Culture said it has unearthed the remains of a palace that may have been home to the Pope for ...

The sources of radical and rebellious Roman Catholic thinking used to be the industrial missions in urban France or the theological faculties of German universities. Lately, the fount of ideas that ...