The Latest Breaking News from Vatican

When the Vatican acknowledged in 2022 that the Nobel Peace Prize-winning, East Timorese independence hero Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo had sexually abused young boys, it appeared that the global clergy sexual abuse scandal that has compromised the Catholic Church’s credibility around the world had finally arrived in Asia’s newest country

The Italian teenager Carlo Acutis, who died in 2006 of a rare form of leukemia at age 15, will soon become the Catholic Church’s first “millennial saint.”

Animal rights activists protest bullfighting at the Vatican during Pope Francis' general audience, seeking his condemnation. The incident sparks debate on ...

Two activists from animal rights group Peta hold up signs saying, ‘Bullfighting is a sin’

The opening ceremony’s sketch has drawn backlash despite the artistic director explaining that the scene was intended to recreate the ‘Feast of Dionysus’

The 2024 Paris Games got off to a rocky start with many religious groups around the world, including the Vatican over a tableau in the opening ceremony perceived by some as evoking Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.”

The Vatican says it “deplored the offense” caused to Christians by the Olympic Games opening ceremony

The Knights of Columbus, the world’s largest Catholic fraternal group, has covered up defining features of the mosaics in its Washington D

The recently opened archives of Pope Pius XII are providing details about the scandal over the founder of the Legionaries of Christ