The Latest Breaking News from Holy See

A top Vatican cardinal is defending Pope Francis’ “drastic” leadership firings at the Holy See’s preeminent charity

A second high-ranking Vatican official has said Pope Francis authorized spending hundreds of thousands of euros in ransom payments to try to free a nun who was kidnapped by al-Qaida-linked militants in Mali

George Pell spent his final days penning an article furiously criticising the Vatican and its leader Pope Francis, coming as no shock to those who knew him.

Italy's new rightist Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met Pope Francis and top Vatican officials on Tuesday, holding what the Holy See called "cordial discussions".

Emanuela Orlandi, who lived in the Vatican City as the daughter of an employee, was 15 years old when she went missing. The mystery of her case has gripped Italy for decades.

ROME: Former pope Benedict, the first pontiff in 600 years to resign, has died at the age of 95 in the Vatican, a spokesman for the Holy See said on Saturday.

Former Pope Benedict, who in 2013 became the first pontiff in 600 years to resign, died on Saturday aged 95 in a secluded monastery in the Vatican where he had lived since stepping down, a spokesman for the Holy See said. The Vatican said his body would lie in state…

Former Pope Benedict, the first pontiff in 600 years to resign and a standard bearer for conservatives who yearned for a more traditional Church, died on Saturday, ending an extraordinary period in which two men wearing white lived in the Vatican.

Slovenia’s Catholic bishops have condemned the emotional, sexual, and spiritual violence committed against women by a famous Slovenian priest