The Latest Breaking News from Vatican

Hong Kong's top Catholic cleric is due to arrive in Beijing on Monday on the first visit to the Chinese capital by a bishop of the former British colony in nearly 30 years, despite signs of new Sino-Vatican tension.

Pope Francis on Sunday rejected as offensive and unfounded what he called insinuations by the brother of a Vatican schoolgirl who went missing 40 years ago about one of his predecessors as pontiff, Saint John Paul II.

Stephen Chow’s visit comes as China’s Beijing-approved Catholic Church makes appointments in defiance of Vatican deal.

Rev. Gabriele Amorth was appointed chief exorcist of the Diocese of Rome in 1986 and remained there until 2016, when he died at age 91. In those three decades, Amorth claimed to have conducted over 60,000 exorcisms.

The Vatican is pushing back hard against insinuations against St. John Paul II that were aired following the reopening of an investigation into the 1983 disappearance of the daughter of a Vatican employee

A historians just found a hidden, ancient fragment of the Bible in the Vatican that no one has seen before.

The Rev. Edward Siebert is a key figure behind the new film “The Pope’s Exorcist” starring Russell Crowe

The Pope Exorcist features Russell Crowe as Father Gabriele Amorth, the real-life lead exorcist for the Vatican. Here's how you can watch the movie.

Imagine that a giant mining company announces plans to dig down deep beneath the Vatican to extract precious minerals, collapsing St. Peter’s Basilica into a cavernous pit. While this unlikely scenario would be met with near-universal outrage, it’s effectively what’s happening in southeastern Arizona, to almost no national scrutiny.

Russell Crowe stars as Father Gabriel Amorth - Chief Exorcist of the Vatican - in his latest film The Pope's Exorcist, but some people aren't happy with the movie

The International Association of Exorcists criticised new horror on basis of trailer – but is yet to comment following a full viewing of the film