The unusual role of the Vatican bank The Institute for Religious Works, or IOR as it is known, is a peculiar institution, created in 1942 to help the church carry out its charitable mission while ...

The exhibition features approximately 1,200 newspapers from remote regions and artistic works inspired by pioneering ...

The sacred performance signals a deepening of Catholic-Orthodox dialogue and a potential step toward a papal visit to Serbia.

It has come as a surprise to many in the Holy See that the Vatican bank fired a newlywed couple, with three young children between them, after a new internal bank regulation went into effect barring ...

Pope Francis indicated that the Catholic Church was willing to accept a common date for celebrating Easter in the West and ...

Pope Francis has long urged couples to marry and have babies rather than dogs. And he has long championed the rights of ...

Templars Today, a private association of lay faithful, signed an agreement with the Vatican’s Dicastery for Evangelization to ...

ROME (AP) — Richard Williamson, an ultra-traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal in ...

A young Italian couple is going to court in the Vatican tribunal to challenge a new ban ...

A United States-based watchdog on Wednesday launched an online database on more than 80 Roman Catholic priests who have been ...

One of the early puzzles you can find in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle features a tomb below the Vatican, surrounded by ten robed skeleton statues bearing torches you can light, and roman ...

A provisional document published by the Italian Bishops’ Conference on Friday (Jan. 10) and approved by the Vatican cautiously opens the door for the ordination of openly gay men to the ...