The Vatican has approved new guidelines from Italian bishops that allow gay men to enter seminaries as long as they abstain ...

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 ...

The New York Times and other media outlets reported that the Italian bishops, approved by the Vatican, allowed gay men to ...

While calling himself an "old man" and saying he never expected to be pope this long, Pope Francis said he still has dreams ...

Pope Francis handed box of papers over ‘most difficult and painful’ Vatican scandals by Benedict - Pope Francis’ reveals in ...

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

Could it possibly have been coincidence? The very day Congress certified Donald Trump’s election as the next U.S. president, the Vatican announced the transfer of San Diego’s Cardinal Robert McElroy ...

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 ...