Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has been living in a house in the Vatican Gardens since retiring in 2013.

Pope Francis is formally elevating 13 new cardinals.

The Vatican’s Santa Marta hotel was built to sequester cardinals during papal elections

Pope Francis is encouraging Argentine women who are protesting a proposed new law to legalize abortion, saying the protection of life is above all a matter of human ethics

China has criticized Pope Francis over a passage in his new book in which he mentions suffering by China's Uighur Muslim minority group

Paolo Gabriele, the Vatican butler who was convicted of stealing and leaking Pope Benedict XVI’s private papers in 2012, has died

The NY attorney general sued the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo and former leaders alleging they failed to adequately investigate sexual abuse claims of minors by priests.

Pope Francis is supporting demands for racial justice in the wake of the U.S. police killing of George Floyd and is blasting COVID-19 skeptics and the media that spread their conspiracies

Pope Francis urged young economists, entrepreneurs and business leaders.

U.S. Catholic bishops are meeting this week for their annual fall assembly, with the Vatican report into the rise and fall of ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick one of their main topics for discussion

Catholic bishops open a national meeting Monday under dramatic circumstances.

Polish bishops are defending St. John Paul II against evidence he rejected reports that ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick slept with his seminarians

The Vatican’s report into ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has raised uncomfortable issues the Holy See will have to confront going forward, chief among them what it will do about current and future clergy who use their power to sexually abuse adults

Men who have made allegations of abuse by former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick expressed shock, outrage and anger after an internal Vatican report revealed the scale of what was known about the clergyman’s behavior and what was ignored

Pope Francis is vowing to rid the Catholic Church of sexual abuse and offering prayers to victims of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick

Despite knowing about extensive sexual abuse allegations against Theodore McCarrick, Pope John Paul II still promoted him to archbishop and then cardinal.

A Vatican investigation of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has found that bishops, cardinals and popes downplayed or dismissed multiple reports of sexual misconduct

A Virginia man who accuses former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of sexually abusing him says he finds some comfort in the Vatican’s release of a report about the former prelate

A new Vatican report describes how hierarchy in the Catholic Church either downplayed or dismissed allegations of sexual misconduct against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick throughout his career.

The Vatican has ordered an investigation into allegations that a now-retired archbishop in Poland was negligent in investigating reports of sex abuse of minors by priests in his Gdansk archdiocese

The Vatican says Pope Francis’ comments on gay civil unions were taken out of context in a documentary that spliced together parts of an old interview, but it still confirms Francis’ belief that gay couples should enjoy legal protections

Pope Francis has blamed “this lady called COVID” for forcing him to keep his distance from the faithful during his general audience, which was far smaller than usual amid soaring coronavirus infections in Italy

The archbishop of Washington, D.C., will become the highest-ranking African American prelate in the nation.

The Vatican has had a rash of COVID-19 infections confirmed in recent days.

Australian media report Pope Francis has been warned of potential exposure to COVID-19 after a Vatican diplomat was infected

A Mexican TV broadcaster is confirming that Pope Francis’ bombshell comments endorsing same-sex civil unions were made during a May 2019 interview that was never broadcast in its entirety

“He is changing the tone, the approach and the conversation,” Jesuit priest and author James Martin said about Pope Francis.

For the first time in the Catholic church’s history the pope took a major departure from the position of the Vatican’s own teachings.

Pope Francis has become the first pontiff to endorse same-sex civil unions

Pope Francis is back to his mask-less old ways a day after donning a face mask for the first time during a liturgical service

The Polish bishop who was kicked out of his diocese a few months ago.

A trial has opened in the Vatican’s criminal tribunal for two priests, one accused of sexually abusing an altar boy in the Vatican’s youth seminary and the other of covering it up

Pope Francis has met with Cardinal George Pell, warmly welcoming him for a private audience in the Apostolic Palace after the cardinal’s sex abuse conviction and acquittal in Australia

Two priests are going on trial in the Vatican’s criminal tribunal this week, one accused of sexually abusing an altar boy who served at papal Masses in St. Peter’s Basilica, and the other accused of covering it up

The Vatican says the coronavirus has hit the Swiss Guards: Four have tested positive for the coronavirus and were showing symptoms

Pope Francis issued an urgent call to action to defend the planet, help the poor

A 15-year-old who died of leukemia has moved a step closer to possible sainthood

Pope Francis has told European anti-money laundering experts that the Vatican was committed to “clean finance” amid a spiraling corruption investigation within the heart of the Holy See

Pope Francis blasted trickle down economic policies that favor the rich, saying the pandemic has shown that these efforts do not work.

Francis traveled to the tomb of his nature-loving namesake to sign an encyclical

More than 200 lawsuits have been brought against the diocese since 2019.

Back in 2002, Roman Catholic bishops in the United States adopted a charter containing guidelines for combating child sex abuse by priests and other church personnel

Pell has not been at Vatican since he was cleared of child sex crimes.

Statue depicts the late pope St. John Paul II throwing a boulder into red water.

The Catholic Church in Germany is setting up a new system to compensate survivors of sexual abuse by clergy that will provide for payments ranging up to about $58,400 per person

Pope Francis has given his blessing to a new Vatican think tank that is seeking to prevent the Mafia and organized crime groups from exploiting the image of the Virgin Mary for their own illicit ends

Pope Francis appealed for the faithful to look out for the health of others.

A Detroit priest who says he was defamed by a police officer in an investigation of alleged sexual abuse has settled a lawsuit against her for $125,000

Pope Francis has marked the 75th anniversary of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima by calling for peace and repeating that not only the use of atomic weapons but their mere possession is immoral

A German newspaper is reporting that Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI has fallen ill after his return from a trip to his native Bavaria to visit his brother, who died a month ago