Vatican News

- Now the hard work starts.Pope Francis celebrates one year in office on Thursday swaddled in a blanket of approval world leaders would die for and most of his predecessors could only dream of.But he also knows that there is more to being pontiff than go...

- In his first year, Pope Francis has blown a breath of fresh air through the Catholic Church that has been felt across the globe.Contrary to the way he is frequently depicted, the first pope from the southern hemisphere is no revolutionary in terms of d...

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- Pope Francis has defended the Catholic Church's record on tackling the sexual abuse of children by priests, saying "no-one else has done more" to root out paedophilia.The comments, in an interview published Wednesday, were the pope's first response to ...

- Pope Francis has defended the Catholic Church's record on tackling the sexual abuse of children by priests, saying "no-one else has done more" to root out paedophilia.The comments, in an interview published Wednesday, were the pope's first response to ...

Managua - Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega reappeared in public after a 10-day absence that had sparked rumors he was sick or even dead.He did so at Managua airport as he received Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, arriving from the Vatican after a visit with Pope Fra...

- Pope Francis on Friday said couples whose marriages fail should be "accompanied" and not "condemned", wading into a debate on divorce that is testing his promise to put the Church in touch with modern life."When love fails, and it fails many times, we ...

Rome - The Legionaries of Christ, a Catholic movement whose founder was a sexual predator, on Tuesday said they had managed to change with Vatican support, but one abuse victim told AFP the group was an "unreformable sect"."The Legionaries have reconciled wit...

Sydney - Australian Cardinal George Pell, appointed by Pope Francis to head a new Vatican finance ministry, admitted Tuesday it will be "an enormous task" to put the Holy See's economic affairs in order.Pell's appointment Monday makes him one of the most import...

- Pope Francis on Monday created a new finance ministry to oversee the Holy See's economic affairs in a move aimed at increasing transparency and boosting funds for the poor following a wave of scandals at the Vatican bank.The ministry will be headed up ...