As a seminarian in 1952, he came to his vocation when, in the words of historian Daithí Ó Corráin, the Irish Catholic Church had ... detector test at the Vatican’s entrance will hardly ...

The King and Queen have postponed their state visit to the Vatican, after doctors said the Pope needed to rest following a ...

It comes two weeks after the pontiff was released from hospital having been treated for a life-threatening bout of pneumonia ...

It would have marked the building of symbolic links between the Roman Catholic Church and the ... lungs shortly after his admission to hospital. Later that month, the Vatican warned the pontiff ...

This year is not only the 1,700th anniversary of the first ecumenical council of the church, but also one of the years when ...

"His return home, here in the Vatican, in the heart of the Church, may be a sign of hope ... and spoke to two soldiers just outside the gate entrance. Italian defence sources told me the two ...

people inside and outside the Church are contemplating whether he would resign, like his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI. Correspondent Seth Doane talks with Vatican watchers about the steps being ...

Pope Francis gives an extraordinary urbi et orbi blessing from the entrance of St ... Credit: Vatican Media The pandemic’s impact on the life of the Church is yet to be fully researched and ...

The crises that led to the death of John Paul II on April 2, 2005, began with his admission ... in the Church, but there is no power vacuum either. Everything carries on. Keywords: vatican news ...