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The Vatican is set to team up with Microsoft to work on a strategy to promote ethics in artificial intelligence (AI). The multinational technology company's president Brad Smith met the Pope in priva...

The Vatican has labelled Italy's state-owned TV channel, RAI, "out of control" after it broadcast a blasphemous text message on New Year's Eve. The highly offensive reference to God scrolled across t...

A senior Vatican diplomat has given his approval to the use of force to defeat Islamic State. Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Holy See's representative at the United Nations, said if no political solu...

The Vatican has arrested a diplomat recalled from Washington last year amid investigations in the United States, Canada and the Vatican for possession of child A Vatican statement said that Monsigno...

The Vatican has been asked to mediate between factions in Venezuela to bring the country back together.  The Roman Catholic Church has been invited to promote conversations between Venezuela's feudi...

A senior Vatican astronomer has said that it is only a matter of time before we 'discover life on other planets'. Jesuit brother Guy Consolmagno, who has taken over as the president of the Vatican O...

The Vatican's first official sports team, which began as a running club in January, says it now plans to branch out into other winter sports, including cycling Made up of 60 Vatican residents, the A...

Two former Vatican Bank managers and a lawyer have had their accounts frozen by the state's top prosecutor amid allegations of embezzlement. The accounts contain 16 million Euros and no access will b...

The Vatican has confirmed that an Argentine bishop, who resigned suddenly in 2017 for stated health reasons and then landed a top administrative job at the Holy Vatican spokesman Alessandro Gisotti s...

The Vatican's representative at UN headquarters in Geneva has said military action in Iraq is needed to protect thousands of Christians. Archbishop Silvani Tomasi said the international community mus...

The Vatican is renewing its call for limits on the manufacture, selling and giving of "horrendous weapons" later used to "terrorise" ordinary people. The Holy See has made the plea during a open deba...

Five people have been indicted by a Vatican judge over the leaking of documents that informed two books alleging financial wrongdoing in the Roman Catholic Chur Two journalists and a high-ranking Vat...

One of the Catholic Church's most senior cardinals has been accused of having an "almost sociopathic" approach to child abuse allegations. Peter Saunders, the head of the Church's taskforce on child ...

The Vatican head of finances has offered to testify in an Australian child abuse inquiry, after being accused of bribing a victim. Cardinal George Pell, who was the leader of Catholics in Australia f...

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, d...