Unlike Gabriele, Wesolowski has not been detained in the Vatican prison, a couple of rooms attached to a courthouse, but was granted house arrest in a Vatican apartment for medical reasons.

But Belgians weren't the only victims. From 1950 to 1970, the Vatican sent 3,500 Italian children to America on something called an orphan visa. The trouble was most were not orphans. Like their ...

(RNS) — Cardinal Marc Ouellet challenged the church to worry less about creating something new, and more about treasuring what is already there. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Considered to be among the ...

A group of men and women gathered at a chapel near the Vatican, confidently praying that the church would restore the female diaconate Oct. 3, the day after synod participants were told it would ...

Speaking to Vatican News about the spiraling violence in the Middle East, the Apostolic Vicar of Southern Arabia reiterates ...

(The Conversation) — Women’s formal involvement in bishops’ synods has grown slowly over the decades. Even when they were excluded, Catholic women found ways to learn about proceedings ...

Pope Francis opens the first general congregation of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality at the Vatican on Oct. 2, 2024. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – On the first day of the final ...

The Vatican Bank has fired two employees whose recent wedding violates a newly-introduced ban on marriages between staff. In a statement published Wednesday, the Institute for the Works of ...

Vatican City may be small, but it's steeped in religious history. It has a long history of being strongly linked with Christianity as the site of Saint Peter's tomb as well as being filled with ...

Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, followed by Monaco, Nauru, Tuvalu and San Marino, in that order. Vatican City is around 0.17 square miles and the smallest fully independent ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The number of Catholics and permanent deacons in the world rose in 2022, while the number of seminarians, priests, men and women in religious orders, and baptisms declined ...