The Latest Breaking News from Vatican

The pope has not participated in a number of recent events and has shown signs of being unwell

Pope Francis has a bad cold and is skipping speeches he was set to deliver

Pope Francis, in a surprise move, on Thursday granted an official private audience to Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the once-powerful Vatican prelate who is on trial for corruption and embezzlement.

By Dave Sherwood

The Western Jerusalem municipality demanded that a Vatican-owned hotel, the Notre Dame of Jerusalem Center, pay overdue city property taxes worth $5 million, and when it didn’t, it placed a lien on the institution’s bank accounts until it settles the payment. Religious institutions in Israel are exempt from paying property…

Two nuns told they ‘disobeyed the church’ by trying to stay at seven-centuries-old site in Ravello

Sister Nathalie Becquart, the first woman to receive voting rights in the Synod of Bishops and considered a more modern Catholic, is currently on a tour of Australian dioceses.

There used to be more cows than people in Visalia, but a new 3,000-seat megachurch has brought Vegas kitsch to the worshippers of California’s Central Valley

A mass for Cardinal George Pell has taken place at Melbourne's St Patrick's Cathedral, a day after he was laid to rest in Sydney.