(THE CONVERSATION) For over 40 years, six people from Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, have claimed to see and speak with the Virgin Mary. For almost as long, hordes of pilgrims have ...

There is rejoicing that the Vatican has recognised the spiritual fruits of the alleged apparitions of Mary in a small town in ...

Because the Vatican has published very little over the centuries about its finances and investments, most people don't know how it makes money as a sovereign city-state with its own economy.

Pope Francis on Thursday told employees of the Vatican's extensive multi-language media operations to expect budget cuts as part of wider belt-tightening efforts that have recently targeted cardinals.

NEW YORK -- The Vatican tribunal said Wednesday it convicted a cardinal of aggravated fraud and other charges because of his “objectively inexplicable behavior” in paying a self-styled ...

But Belgians weren't the only victims. From 1950 to 1970, the Vatican sent 3,500 Italian children to America on something called an orphan visa. The trouble was most were not orphans. Like their ...

Advocates for survivors called it an exercise in obfuscation. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Vatican City Ten years after it was established, a Vatican commission on clerical sexual abuse ...

In its most critical note, it called for greater transparency from the Vatican’s sex abuse office, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. It said the office’s slow processing of cases ...

And is there a higher place than the Vatican? O'Hara and Welch married in 1992, and are still married, but as a wedding gift, Burton gave the couple he helped set up a private tour of the Vatican.

(RNS) – Pope Francis asked the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors to draft a report to promote ‘transparency and accountability.’ VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A report published ...

The Vatican last week opened a center to welcome pilgrims and tourists before they visit St. Peter’s Basilica. The space, which was inaugurated Oct. 31, is intended to provide practical ...

The Vatican has unveiled a new mascot for the Catholic Church in the hope of engaging young people - a cartoon character named Luce. Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the Vatican's chief organiser for ...