Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis again called for the release of hostages taken from Israel by Hamas militants and for allowing humanitarian aid into...

VATICAN CITY -- Atop one of the highest hills in the Vatican Gardens, surrounded by green lawns, rose trellises, butterflies and green parrots, a...

VATICAN CITY — Members of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops are not gathered in Rome to implement a "plan of reformation" but...

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,...