The Latest Breaking News from the Holy See

The Vatican has opened the doors to one of Renaissance Rome’s most spectacular palazzos in a show of transparency

Ukraine’s Greek Catholic bishops have brought their complaints about the Vatican's diplomatic neutrality in Russia's war on their country to the Holy See itself

The Vatican prosecutor has given his closing arguments in the Vatican's big financial trial

Pope Francis’ peace envoy is traveling to Washington as part of the Holy See’s peace initiatives for Ukraine

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