Vatican City, Vatican City - 08, 2025 Soldiers, police, and security agents from numerous countries arrived at the Vatican on Saturday to cross the Holy Door of St Peter's Basilica for the Jubilee of ...

This week, an unabashed Pope Francis appointed an Italian nun, Sister Raffaella Petrini, to run the Vatican City State – the first time a woman has ever been given the role. Women make better ...

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.

German theologian and journalist Matthias Kopp was in Iraq this week to present his new book, “The Christian Legacy in Iraq.” ...

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

Pope Francis has tripped while entering the Vatican auditorium for an audience Saturday after the handle of his walking stick snapped, but he avoided falling VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis tripped ...

Pope Francis meeting with Haxhi Baba Edmond ... of Albania to establish a 27-acre mini-state (by way of comparison, Vatican City is 121 acres), which would be a fairly liberal community, with ...

The world’s smallest sovereign state has a population of fewer than 800 and is surrounded by the city of Rome in ... such as the Papal residence and the Vatican Apostolic Archives, once known ...

Sister Raffaella Petrini, vice governor of the Governorate of Vatican City State, meets with Pope Francis. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – In a new interview Pope Francis announced that ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — While many at the Vatican let ... not be enough to repair Catholic-Jewish relations, damaged by Pope Francis’ criticism of Israel. “There is a crisis in Catholic-Jewish ...

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 ...