King Charles and Queen Camilla will travel to Italy and the Vatican in April to meet with Pope Francis, as the Catholic ...

A new document examines the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence and calls for “moral and ethical considerations” to be enshrined in all of its applications.

The Vatican has given its blessing to a document suggesting that those with same-sex attraction can pursue the priesthood in Italy. The Italian Episcopal Conference, the group of Roman Catholic ...

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Colleen Dulle and Gerard O’Connell discuss whether this signals a shift in admissions policy and the potential implications for seminarians worldwide.

War in the Vatican published in Italy in 2024. “I remember being very surprised by the subject of his research – the conclave. Francis had been Pope for less than two years, although at the ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS ... 13-16 in Assisi. The episcopacy in Italy, where vocations are at an all-time low, has been pushing the envelope in terms of making the Catholic Church more palatable ...

Located in a tower just steps inside Vatican City, the bank was long mired in scandal but spent over a decade cleaning up its books and ridding itself of its reputation as an offshore tax haven.

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10) and approved by the Vatican cautiously opens the door for ... 13-16 in Assisi. The episcopacy in Italy, where vocations are at an all-time low, has been pushing the envelope in terms of ...

Gay men are allowed to train as Catholic priests in Italy, provided they do not endorse or promote what is referred to as ‘Gay Culture’ as stated by the new guidelines approved by the Vatican.

The Vatican is allowing gay men to become Catholic priests, under strict new rules that requires a vow of celibacy and forbidding an embrace of "gay culture". Gay men in Italy can now become Roman ...

Although the Vatican had not explicitly barred gay men from entering the priesthood in the past, an earlier 2016 instruction had said seminaries cannot admit men who have “deep-seated homosexual ...