By Jason Horowitz The ruling by the Vatican court signaled the church’s desire to get its financial house in order following past scandals. By Elisabetta Povoledo “Merchants in the Temple ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo The pope will donate the 2,500-year-old pieces held by the Vatican Museums to the archbishop of Athens, a gesture that increases pressure on the British Museum to act over ...

Vatican II was the catalyst for a significant realignment of ministerial life in the Catholic Church. Although the council did not undertake a thoroughgoing revision of episcopal or presbyteral ...

This chapter examines the preconciliar attitudes and events that led to interreligious dialogue featuring as a major pastoral teaching of the post-Vatican II church. The reception of the council’s ...

Then came Vatican II (1962-1965). The council recommended a warm and fervent devotion to Mary, but no reference was made to the rosary, nor to any Marian devotion, or apparition. (No specific Marian ...

In recent weeks individuals close to a scandal-plagued Peruvian lay group have lodged charges of harassment against some of ...

Pope Francis and the Catholic Church on plans for the second and final session of the Vatican Synod on Synodality.

The Vatican prosecutor has opened a new investigation into the alleged leak of information about its “trial of the century” ...

However, no trials were ever opened against him in the Vatican, nor were any drastic measures ever taken, confirming the tendency to be lenient with abusive priests to avoid scandals and undermine ...

The Vatican prosecutor has opened a new investigation into the alleged leak of information about its “trial of the century” probe into a London property investment ROME -- The Vatican ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is providing its long-awaited assessment on one of the more contested aspects of Roman Catholicism in recent years: the reported “apparitions” of the Virgin ...