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...
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...
