Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY -- After an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested that a financial relationship exists between the Vatican and Moscow, the Vatican...

VATICAN CITY -- The top-ranking U.S. military officer told reporters he and Pope Francis discussed the war in Ukraine, especially the war's impact on...

LISBON, Portugal -- To end "Catholic Woodstock" -- as World Youth Day has been called by the Portuguese press -- Pope Francis told 1.5...

LISBON, Portugal -- Fifteen World Youth Day pilgrims from Ukraine, most of whom had lost a father or other close relative in the war,...

VATICAN CITY  -- As Catholic schools worldwide face several challenges -- including declining enrollments, funding or maintaining a distinctive religious character -- the Vatican...

VATICAN CITY -- As has been his practice since becoming pope in 2013, Pope Francis will take most of the month of July off...

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican City judicial office has questioned officials that oversaw various Vatican offices when a 15-year-old Vatican schoolgirl disappeared in 1983,...

VATICAN CITY -- Scientists studying the cosmos should be willing to be surprised by what their research reveals about the immensity and complexity of...

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican's criminal court ordered two climate activists to pay more than $30,000 in damages after they glued themselves to an...

ROME -- A papal resignation should occur only in "truly extreme cases" and must not "become the norm," said the former head of the...