The Latest Breaking News from Matteo Bruni

Vatican issues apology over Pope Francis’s ‘homophobic’ slur

Statement says pontiff apologises ‘to those who felt offended by the term reported by others’

The Guardian - UK · May 28, 2024

Pope provokes outrage by saying Ukraine should ‘raise white flag’ and end war with Russia

Francis’s failure to condemn Moscow as aggressor decried as ‘shameful’ and ‘incomprehensible’

The Guardian - UK · Mar 10, 2024

Pope punishes leading critic Cardinal Burke in second action against conservative American prelates

Pope Francis has taken measures to punish one of his highest-ranking critics, Cardinal Raymond Burke

The Independent UK · Nov 28, 2023

Pope Francis draws more than a million pilgrims to vigil in Portugal

An estimated 1.5 million young people filled a field Saturday in the Portuguese capital for Pope Francis’ World Youth Day vigil, braving scorching heat to secure a spot for the evening prayer and to camp out overnight and be in place for his final farewell Mass on Sunday morning.

France 24 · Aug 5, 2023

Vatican weighs in on latest 'Vatican Girl' tempest after investigations are reopened

The Vatican is trying to tampe down the latest tempest over the 1983 disappearance of a Vatican employee’s teenage daughter

The Independent UK · Jul 12, 2023

Pope expected to be released soon from hospital after abdominal surgery: Vatican

The Vatican spokesman says Pope Francis is expected to be released from the hospital “in the coming days.”

The Independent UK · Jun 14, 2023

Hospitalized Pope Francis follows Mass on TV, lunches with medical personnel and aides

Pope Francis has followed his doctors' advice and skipped his customary Sunday noon public blessing as he convalesces from abdominal surgery

The Independent UK · Jun 11, 2023

Pope to undergo hernia operation


ROME: Pope Francis will undergo an operation for an abdominal hernia at a Rome hospital, where he is expected to stay for “several days”, the Vatican said on Wednesday.

Bangkok Post · Jun 7, 2023

Pope Francis cancels audiences due to fever

The pope is due to preside at a Mass marking Pentecost in St Peter’s Square on Sunday

Evening Standard · May 26, 2023

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 452 of the invasion

Zelenskiy lays flowers at cenotaph in Hiroshima; conflicting claims over whether Russia has captured Bakhmut

The Guardian - UK · May 21, 2023