The Vatican houses the central government of the Catholic Church and is also an independent city-state. The pope is both the ...

As the United States continues to attempt to broker a ceasefire deal between Russia and Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he spoke with the Vatican secretary ...

Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, LC, president of the Governorate of Vatican City State and president of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, celebrated his 80th birthday on Saturday ...

With Pope Francis entering his fourth week in hospital, those working in the Apostolic Palace are grappling with the ...

Based on Dan Brown’s novel, this film follows Robert Langdon as he unravels a conspiracy involving the Vatican and the ...

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández ... hundreds of faithful from around the world continue to gather nightly in Vatican City to pray for his recovery. Pope Francis' extended hospitalization ...

The church opposes “the ideology that usually accompanies so many sex-change decisions,” which Cardinal Víctor Manuel ...

The Vatican appears to have modified its position against gender-affirming surgery and “gender theory” last year, raising the ...

The scene in 2016 as Pope Francis made Blase J. Cupich a cardinal during a ceremony at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. Cupich is one of 137 cardinals under 80 and eligible to vote in a ...

When Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, welcomed Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda to the Vatican March ...

The two highest-ranking secretariat officials are Cardinal Pietro Parolin ... as dicasteries – located in offices in and around Vatican City State and Rome. The departments, such as those ...