The Latest Breaking News from Vatican

Barbara Jatta, the first woman to head the Vatican Museums, wants visitors to avoid being suffocated by the crowds and take in the lesser-known - but spectacular - attractions she helps to oversee.

The Vatican urged bishops and high-profile lay Catholic leaders on Monday to tone down their comments on social media, saying some were causing division and stoking polemics that harmed the entire Church.

She was 15 when she was last seen alive in Rome. Her brother explains why he backs a new theory featured in a TV show

Pope Francis resumed regular appointments on Saturday, one day after canceling his schedule due to a fever

Pope Francis on Saturday resumed audiences following a bout of fever that forced him to skip them on Friday.

The pope is due to preside at a Mass marking Pentecost in St Peter’s Square on Sunday

The Vatican says Pope Francis canceled his meetings Friday because he was running a fever

Pope Francis did not receive anyone in audiences on Friday because he has a fever, the Vatican said on Friday.

A Texas nun who accused the Fort Worth bishop of invading her privacy and violating civil law says the same bishop is refusing to allow her to choose her own representation in the church’s investigation.

Two environmental activists have told the Vatican’s criminal court they never intended to damage an ancient statue in the Vatican Museums when they glued their hands to its marble base

The Vatican recently announced its plan to set up an “observatory” at one of its several academic institutions, the Pontificia Academia Mariana Internationalis, to investigate claims of apparitions and other mystical phenomena attributed to the Virgin Mary.