The Latest Breaking News from the Holy See

Several of the foreign-staffed Catholic religious orders in Mongolia run shelters, orphanages and nursing homes to care for a population of 3.3 million where one in three people lives in poverty.

Pope Francis is wrapping up the first-ever papal visit to Mongolia

The Vatican says a key charitable fund, Peter's Pence, doubled its income in the last year to 107 million euros

Exactly 40 years after the teenage daughter of a Vatican employee disappeared, the Vatican announced new leads “worthy of further investigation” have surfaced

Pope Francis, in his first full week back at the Vatican following abdominal surgery, has met with Cuba's president

Since a United Nations General Assembly Resolution vote in November 2012, Palestine has had the status of a state within the UN system. It is not a full member state but, like the Holy See, a non-member observer state. Australia – after a heady debate within the Gillard cabinet –…

Pope Francis' surgery to repair a hernia in his abdominal wall has raised questions about what happens to papal power when Francis is unconscious or unable to lead the church

In a video, the bishop confirmed that the Holy See accepted his resignation today.

The Vatican is seeking clarity after the former director of its U.S. missionary fundraising office oversaw the transfer of at least $17 million of its donations into a new non-profit and private equity fund that he created