Vatican News

Talks of having a first woman cardinal in Vatican have been spreading like wildfires and rumors are swirling around that reformist Pope Francis could break a canon law of 1917 that says only ordained men can take the role.

In an interview with Fox News' Bill Hemmer, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) proposed a resolution to help keep the NSA in check and demanded an answer from President Obama on the secretive agency's actions.

Rome - On a trip to Italy for an audience with Pope Francis, Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi finally became an honorary citizen of Rome on Sunday, 19 years after being awarded the honor.

It's not likely Pope Francis I will be on the side but the tiny city-state he's titular head of will be going toe to toe in a battle with the Church of England on the cricket pitch. The Pope is more a football (soccer) man.

The Vatican announced today they've recalled some 6,200 medals, medals they produced to commemorate the papacy of Pope Francis I. The problem? Instead of Jesus, the medals said 'Lesus.'

Rome — The Vatican bank says it is cooperating with police investigators following the arrest of a top Vatican official Monsignor Nuncio Scarano, in an alleged plot to smuggle $26 million into Italy from Switzerland in a private jet.

Rome - An Italian pedophile priest imprisoned for sexually abusing young boys claims that Vatican clergy have been involved in an underage male prostitution ring, as well as in satanism, with the aid of a former national military policeman.

Rome - Thousands of tattooed Harley Davidson bike riders in leather boots and vests were part of a large congregation that Pope Francis blessed at an open air mass in St Peter's Square on Sunday.

Pope Francis has revealed that he never wanted to be Pope, telling a gathering of Jesuit children from a school in the Vatican that any cardinal who wants the Catholic Church’s top job doesn’t have much respect for their well-being.

Rome - After Pope Francis told the world that even atheists are redeemed, Vatican spokesman Thomas Rosica has issued a statement that the pope's words do not mean atheists are saved. They are still going to hell if they do not "enter" the Catholic Church.