The Vatican has spoken out clarifying rules about how to properly report allegations of abuse within the Church. Pope Francis set up a special abuse commission in 2014 in order to root out abusive pr...
A Vatican investigation has cleared a former high-ranking member of the Los Angeles Archdiocese of sexual misconduct. The inquiry into Msgr Richard Loomis lasted 10 years.It was looking into allegati...
The Vatican has expressed "grave concerns" a bishop who was taken away from his diocese in China and then detained. According to Vatican spokesman Greg Burke, Chinese Catholic bishop Peter Shao Zhumi...
The mother of Brittany Maynard, who ended her life early after being given a terminal diagnosis, has said Vatican criticism of her decision was "more than a sla Mrs Maynard decided to use Oregon's ri...
The Vatican has called the sex abuse described in a grand jury report in Pennsylvania "criminal and morally reprehensible". In a statement released late on Thursday, Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said...
The Vatican has spoken out against comments made on an Italian radio station linking an earthquake that killed more than 200 people to same-sex unions. A right-wing Catholic station, Radio Maria, de...
The assisted suicide of an American woman with terminal brain cancer was "reprehensible" according to the Vatican's bioethics chief. A fierce debate was sparked in Oregon after Brittany Maynard annou...
A man who's scaled St Peter's Basilica five times to protest against the Italian government is to face a Vatican trial. The Holy See had already suggested it was considering putting Marcello di Finiz...
The Vatican has said it may sell its fossil investments, after Pope Francis recent encyclical on the environment. The announcement comes as the Holy See holds as two-day conference on climate change,...
A senior Vatican official's criticised the leader of an Italian far-right political party, for saying Roma camps should be bulldozed to the ground. Matteo Salvini, who's the leader of the anti-immigr...
Pope Francis has carried a lit candle up the main aisle of a darkened St Peter's Basilica in a dramatic Easter Saturday vigil. The pontiff, prelates and other faithful also clutching candles appeared...
China's six million 'illegal' Catholics are worried that the Vatican will not help foster relations with China so that they are free to worship safely, it has b Many Chinese Christians are caught bet...
The Vatican has defended inviting China to an organ trafficking conference, despite the country's history of executing people to harvest their organs. The Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS) said th...
A top Vatican cardinal has issued a scathing rebuke of the ambassador who accused Pope Francis of covering up the sexual misconduct of a prominent American card Cardinal Marc Ouellet said Archbishop ...
The Vatican has denied that claims made in an Italian newspaper that Pope Francis has a small, curable brain tumour, are true. A Vatican spokesperson said the report in the National Daily was "unfoun...
A high-ranking priest working at the Vatican's embassy in Washington has been recalled after US prosecutors asked for him to be charged there and face trial in The diplomat was suspected of possessi...
The Vatican has denied a claim that the Pope 'kindly took' a sign calling for negotiations between the UK and Argentina over the Falkland Islands. The Argentinian pontiff was handed the sign at a gen...
The Vatican has issued a document rejecting the idea that people can choose or change their genders. The document issued on Monday, during LGBT pride month, is the Vatican's first on gender theory. Â ...
The Vatican has donated funds to help rebuild Haiti after Hurricane Matthew torn through the Caribbean nation earlier in the month. £80,000 has been given to help victims of the storm rebuild their ...
The Vatican has admitted that its prosecutor is investigating two former officials of a Vatican-owned children's hospital over renovations at the penthouse apar In December leaked Vatican documents s...
