Defense lawyers in the Vatican’s “trial of the century” have argued that Pope Francis violated the fundamental rights of ...

The Vatican will meet next week with the leader of a traditionalist group that announced plans to consecrate new bishops ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As the Vatican’s highest appeals court reviews the landmark finance trial, defense lawyers are ...

Pope Francis has named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, tapping Sister Simona Brambilla to become prefect of the Vatican department responsible for all the world’s religious orders.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as “unjust,” saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catholic bishops who support the laws to ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Sister Raffaella Petrini as a member of the Commission for Reserved Matters, which is responsible ...

Pope Leo XIV is facing his first major crisis with traditionalist Catholics. A breakaway group attached to the traditional ...