NORTHERN Samar Gov. Edwin Ongchuan led local officials and religious leaders in welcoming the Vatican Ambassador to the ...

The Holy Father told groups of pilgrims attending his Jan. 15 general audience that they should be aware that millions of ...

The Vatican City State has toughened sanctions for those who try to illegally enter its territory in areas where free access ...

ROME — An introspective Pope Francis has divulged some of the behind-the-scenes dynamics of the secret 2013 conclave that ...

Vatican Secretary of State Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin Monday held a meeting with papal representatives in the Middle ...

Burch arrives in Rome with no diplomatic experience, a pattern typical for U.S. appointments to the Vatican. "Major countries with diplomatic ties to the Holy See usually send career diplomats ...

Pope Francis has baptised 21 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday under the ceiling frescoed by Michelangelo, in what has ...

As the Jubilee year kicks off in Rome, more than half a million visitors have flocked to the Vatican to walk through the Holy ...

Biden accepted Francis' invitation to visit the Vatican during a Thursday phone call ... a trip first reported by the Associated Press. "Yes, I will see the pope," Biden responded.

According to the Vatican website for the jubilee ... “In the Gospels, the only time that we see the entire Holy Family together is when they’re going someplace, when they’re on pilgrimage. They’re ...

adds the Vatican. Earlier this year at the 60th Venice Biennale, the Holy See launched its pavilion in the Giudecca Women’s Prison featuring works by artists such as Maurizio Cattelan ...