The Vatican Press Office released Pope Francis's message for the 2024 World Day of the Sick, which will be celebrated on February 11th this year

Pope Francis this week called for cooperation between Christians and Marxists as a way to achieve greater “dialogue” and help in the search for the “common good.”

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, has commented on the divided reaction to the Fiducia Supplicans document amid a great backlash from episcopal conferences.

The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, has sent Pope Francis a formal invitation to visit his homeland and

The Vatican has announced a significant restoration of the iconic baldacchino, Gian Lorenzo Bernini's 400-year-old masterpiece, towering over the main altar of St. Peter's Basilica.

Vinicio Riva, whose face was disfigured by von Recklinghausen's disease and who received a long embrace from Pope Francis ten years ago in St. Peter's Square, has passed away at age 58.

Pope Francis next month will preside over the canonization Mass of the woman set to become Argentina’s first female saint, the Vatican said this week.

On January 10th, Pope Francis welcomed in the Vatican the “Sentinels of the Holy Family”, a Marian prayer network formed by women to present the intentions of the Church and the world to the Virgin Mary.

Pope Francis met with priests from the Secular Institute of Missionary Priests of the Kingship of Christ, reminding them that the Church, similar to the baptized, is "in the world, for the world, but not of the world."

The chapel of the Domus Australia in Rome was filled to capacity for the Mass, which was celebrated by Cardinal Gerhard Müller.

Pope Francis has confirmed a new head of the Syro-Malabar Church, the largest Eastern Catholic church in India.

In the third installment of his catechetical series on vice and virtue, Pope Francis on Wednesday focused on the sin of gluttony, noting that the vice is not about “food in itself, but on our relationship with it.”

Blessed Pope Gregory X, commemorated on January 10, is remembered for his extraordinary journey from a crusader to the papacy, despite not being a priest at the time of his election.

The meeting takes place almost a year after the Apostolic Constitution "In Ecclesiarum communione" came into effect, which reformed the Vicariate of Rome.

Vatican City has new tenants: seven nuns from Argentina who, at the request of Pope Francis, will live in Mater Ecclesiae, the monastery where Pope Benedict XVI resided for almost a decade following his resignation from the papacy.

Twenty Catholic missionaries were murdered in 2023, according to a new Dec. 30 report issued by the Vatican’s Fides News Agency.

On the morning of Tuesday, January 9, the Holy See Press Office released Pope Francis' schedule for January and February 2024.

Cardinal Robert Sarah responded to the controversial Vatican declaration that allows clergy to bless same-sex couples in certain scenarios by instructing the faithful to “respond to confusion with the word of God” in a Jan. 6 reflection.

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, one of the most powerful men in the Vatican, responded to criticism about a book he wrote in the 1990s on spirituality and sensuality.

A 1998 book by Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández featuring provocative, sexually-charged themes has resurfaced, likely adding further scrutiny to the already embattled prefect of the Vatican’s doctrine office.

A Vatican official has said that he thinks the Catholic Church’s priestly celibacy requirement in the Latin rite should be revised.

Pope Francis called surrogacy “deplorable” and called for a global ban on the exploitative practice of “so-called surrogate motherhood” in a speech to all of the world’s ambassadors to the Vatican on Monday.

Pope Francis said Sunday that if you do not know the date of your baptism, you need to look it up so that you can celebrate the anniversary of becoming a child of God and heir to the kingdom of heaven.

Pope Francis baptized babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday and encouraged parents not to worry if their children cry or fuss during Mass.