Before the Second Vatican Council, the answers commonly given to this question focused on individual well-being in the afterlife. As many Catholic characters in movies and novels attested ...

Some Vatican insiders do not believe that the Vatican is acting "weak" towards China. "From the outside, it may look as if the Church is compromising on fundamental issues.

I was about 10-years-old when the phrase "Vatican II" first came into my consciousness. My family was in its regular pew at St. Joseph's parish, and I was in the daze that accompanies elementary ...

Unlock the Vatican's hidden magic in a family journey through history and art "Alessandra was amazing and very friendly. She captivated nine year old for 3 hours and focused on her interests to show ...

“Pope Francis says we shall “welcome immigrants with our arms open,” one X user wrote, asking – “Who thinks the Vatican is too focused on appeasing globalists to effectively be a force ...

Pope Francis waves as he leaves after his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at The Vatican, Aug.28, 2024. Pope Francis is old (he turns 88 in December) and infirm. Yet he’s forging ...

After five years of refusal, the Chinese government has officially recognized Bishop Melchior Shi Hongzhen as bishop of Tianjin, the Vatican said, in what it called "a positive fruit of the dialogue ...

ROME – In what is being cast by the Vatican as a victory for Pope Francis’s China policy, Beijing has officially recognized a 95-year-old prelate as the bishop of the northern diocese of ...

“This provision is a positive fruit of the dialogue established over the years between the Holy See and the Chinese government,” reads a Holy See statement released Aug. 27. According to ...

VATICAN CITY, Aug 27 (Reuters) - China's government has recognized the authority of the Catholic bishop of Tianjin, Melchior Shi Hongzhen, the Vatican said on Tuesday, who had previously been ...

Pietro Orlandi, right, brother of Manuela, a 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee disappeared in 1983, is flanked by his lawyer Laura Sgro, left, as he attends a press conference on the ...