Vatican City’s highest appellate court has rejected an appeal from the city state’s chief prosecutor that sought to reopen the case against Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu and other defendants, even after the prosecution secured convictions against nine separate defendants on charges of various financial crimes,

Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday opened a new phase of his pontificate by gathering the world's cardinals to Rome and asking them to advise him on key priorities for the next two years. They responded by indicating continuity with Pope Francis' key aims of making the church more missionary and responsive to the needs of ordinary faithful.

Pope Leo XIV began a series of reflections on the Second Vatican Council at his first general audience of 2026 on Wednesday. The public audience, held indoors in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall due to low temperatures, took place shortly before the start of Leo’s first consultation with cardinals, called a consistory, convened for Jan. 7–8.

Speaking at his General Audience on Wednesday, Pope Leo XIV said the Vatican II ecumenical council has “prophetic and contemporary relevance.”

Close to 3 million pilgrims and visitors attended audiences, liturgies or meetings at the Vatican with Pope Leo XIV from the time of his election in May through December, according to the Prefecture of the Papal Household.

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican on Monday gave a final accounting of its 2025 Holy Year, saying more than 33 million pilgrims had participated and that the only real dispute with the city of Rome concerned the style of fountains built for the event's main public works project.

Seventeen Catholic priests, sisters, seminarians and lay workers were murdered in 2025, according to Fides, the Vatican's missionary news agency. Five of the victims were killed in Nigeria where kidnapping priests,

The "Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions” (“Nostra Aetate”), issued at the Second Vatican Council, marked one of the most radical turns in Catholic history: a shift from suspicion to encounter,

Centuries-old artifacts tied to the Roman Catholic Church have found their way to museums and private collections around the world, and one of the most comprehensive collections outside of Vatican

Conor McGregor has shared a surprising story behind his wedding to Dee Devlin. The former MMA star said the decision came after he woke up from a hall.