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Pope Francis has updated a 2019 church law aimed at holding Catholic hierarchs accountable for covering up cases of sex abuse

The restitution of Parthenon artefacts from the Vatican increases pressure on the British Museum to return marbles.

Pope Francis on Thursday stressed the need that Lebanese officials join efforts in order to help their country steer out of its political paralysis and elect a new head of state. “Lebanese officials must put their efforts together in order to steer out of the crisis and elect a president,”…

The Vatican Museums has officially reopened its African and American ethnographic collections by showcasing intricately restored Rwandan raffia screens

The Vatican's No. 3 says Pope Francis gave clear indications to get out of a disastrous London real estate deal at the heart of big criminal trial

LOS ANGELES — Sitting in her family home in East Los Angeles, Rosa Manriquez kept her eyes on the TV screen as a flood of white smoke came pouring out of the roof of the Sistine Chapel 6,300 miles away — a century-old signal that the cardinals of the Roman…

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis marked 10 years as head of the Catholic Church on Monday with a podcast, a private mass and a series of interviews, one of which triggered a diplomatic spat with Nicaragua.

Pontiff made his mark amid battles with a conservative faction irked by his focus on inequality, climate crisis and refugees

The leader of the world's 1.3 billion Catholics has steered his church leftward after more than two decades of conservative leadership. Opposition within the Vatican is fierce.