Vatican

The Vatican has expressed hope for free, fair, just and transparent elections in Bangladesh, while making it clear that it does not wish for any particular outcome. “As Bangladesh prepares for elections, the Holy See stands alongside of...

Firefighters installed the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel on Friday which will emit white smoke to signal the election of a new pope as preparations proceed just five days before cardinals gather for the conclave. Some...

The Vatican on Thursday put the brakes on a German progressive movement that seeks to give people Catholics a voice on doctrinal issues like homosexuality and women priests, claiming that doing so runs the risk of...

President Joe Biden and Pope Francis rekindled their tight friendship on Friday, meeting for 90 minutes, which was twice as long as the President’s first encounter with a pontiff, with Pope John Paul II. On Friday,...

Pope Francis, 84, underwent surgery Sunday for an inflamed large colon, a Vatican statement said. The pontiff was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli University Hospital “for a scheduled surgery for symptomatic diverticular stenosis of the colon”, it...

Pope Francis was spotted at the Vatican last Wednesday by a diverse participant among ordinary visitors. He is ‘Spiderman’. He appeared at the Vatican’s San Damaso Courtyard in a red-and-black-and-blue outfit for Spiderman’s comic and movie...

China and the Vatican City are preparing to renew a historic agreement on the appointment of bishops. Pope Francis has already agreed. The French news agency AFP quoted the source as saying that the agreement was...

Pope Paul VI, who oversaw the sweeping “Vatican II” reforms of the Catholic Church in the 1960s, will soon be made a saint, the Vatican announced on Wednesday. Oscar Romero, the archbishop of San Salvador who...

The Vatican on Tuesday rebuked a senior cardinal who said its diplomats were “selling out” Chinese Catholics loyal to the pope as part of a deal aimed at normalising ties with Beijing’s communist government. In a...

News Hour: The Vatican on Friday condemned a right-wing Catholic radio station that said a series of earthquakes that hit Italy in the past three months was “God’s punishment” for the country approving same-sex civil unions....