The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith released a 17-page document offering a step-by-step guide for how bishops, religious superiors and canon lawyers are supposed to handle accusations of alleged abuse by clerics against minors.
While nothing in the text is
After the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization projected a drastic increase in hunger and malnutrition due to the coronavirus, a Vatican official called on the international community to work together to combat poverty.
In an interview with Vatican News July 13, Msgr. Fernando
Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of two women and three men, including an Italian laywoman who was once believed to be demonically possessed because of her violent convulsions after drinking unsafe water.
In a meeting July 10 with Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu,
Pope Francis praised the United Nations' adoption of a global cease-fire resolution amid the coronavirus pandemic that has swept the world.
"The request for a global and immediate cease-fire, which would allow that peace and security necessary to provide the needed humanitarian assistance,
In his latest column, Our Sunday Visitor contributing editor Russell Shaw looks at the 2018 agreement between China and the Holy See, which expires in September. Shaw writes that “since terms of the Provisional Agreement on the Appointment of Bishops reached in
In an interview with Our Sunday Visitor, Father Augusto Zampini, the Vatican’s adjunct secretary for its Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, who was appointed with a leading role in the Vatican’s new COVID-19 Commission, says he has a message for the
Pope Francis appointed a commissioner charged with overseeing and reorganizing the Fabbrica di San Pietro, the office responsible for the physical care and maintenance of St. Peter's Basilica.
The pope named retired Archbishop Mario Giordana, who served as apostolic nuncio to Slovakia until
Some people always will want to destroy unity and stifle prophets, Pope Francis said on the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul.
And yet, Jesus challenges everyone to be -- like Peter -- a rock for building a renewed church and renewed humanity,
The Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization announced Thursday the release of the new Directory for Catechesis for the universal Church. A set of directives to all those who teach the Catholic faith, this is the third such directory in the history
With so many people left unemployed or in a precarious position because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pope Francis launched a fund aimed specifically at helping people in Rome struggling economically in the wake of the crisis. "This fund is meant to be