From Cold War espionage to today’s intelligence dramas, shifting loyalties mirror America’s transformation. As Trump’s ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. It has come as something of a surprise to many in the Holy See that the Vatican bank fired a young couple ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pope Francis’ aide leans down to pick up the the handle of the Pope’s walking stick after it snapped as ...

Scientists have discovered a hidden chapter of the Bible dating back nearly 1,500 years in an ancient Vatican manuscript. The remarkable finding, concealed beneath three layers of text, was revealed ...

Nicaragua's government described the Vatican as "depraved" and "pedophile" on Sunday, two days after an interview on Catholic television channel EWTN with exiled Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Alvarez ...

The Vatican City State’s first decree regulating the use of artificial intelligence quietly came into effect this month prohibiting discriminatory uses of AI and establishing a special ...

The Vatican Observatory’s summer school, known as “Specola,” has already selected students for its next edition. During the month of June, 25 students who were selected from among 120 ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Donald Trump might not be president yet, but world leaders have been preparing for his second term, including the head of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics, Pope Francis.

16, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen Did the pope endorse a Vatican-style ministate for a Muslim community on Thursday? The press in Albania seems to think so, after Pope Francis met with a ...

Further reading: Archbishop Viganò: A Vatican mystery “The lifting of the censorship in these cases is reserved to the Apostolic See,” it further indicated. Born in 1941, ordained priest in ...

Rome — Pope Francis fell Thursday and hurt his right arm, the Vatican said, just weeks after another apparent fall resulted in a bad bruise on his chin. Francis didn't break his arm, but a sling ...

A man has caused minor damage at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after jumping onto the main altar and knocking over 19th-century candelabra, worth several thousand dollars. Video posted on ...