French Archbishop Thibault Verny is the Vatican's new president of its Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors ...

The prelate succeeds U.S.-born Cardinal Seán O’Malley, 81, the founding president of the safeguarding commission established ...

The pontiff will stay on the hilltop Vatican property “for a period of rest” from the afternoon of July 6 to the afternoon of ...

Leaked documents claim to present results of a worldwide consultation of bishops on restricting pre-Vatican II Latin Mass ...

The Vatican says leaked documents that seemingly undermined Pope Francis’ stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass ...

For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, ...

Pope Leo XIV’s hometown is poised to acquire his childhood home. Board members in suburban Dolton outside Chicago voted ...

By 2050, 1 in 5 people worldwide will be over the age of 60. The coming demographic shifts “represent both a triumph of human progress and a test of our collective resolve,” said Minter-Jordan, who ...

During her visit to the Vatican, Xuân also met with Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations ...

Visitors to northeastern Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region might also accidentally stumble into another country entirely. Tiny San Marino is Europe’s smallest democracy and has ancient traditions dating ...

Among the many historic buildings and magnificent residences in Vatican City, not everyone knows exactly where Pope Leo XIV resides. The home of the Pope in Rome is the place the Holy Father chose ...

But koalas aren’t moving closer to people—people are moving into koala habitats. The “secret” population, as it’s described in a statement, has probably been there all along.