The largest joint announcement of a move away from fossil fuels marked the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi as Catholic institutions and communities from all over the world...
The Pope announced on Wednesday the creation of a new church tribunal to judge bishops who don’t expose priests guilty of sexual abuse on children, a...
Campaigners have called on the Vatican Bank to ditch all its investments in the fossil fuel industry, and throw its considerable weight behind the growing divestment...
Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic church, made a religious case for acting against climate change in front of a large crowd that had gathered...
Religious groups have called on Pope Francis to give his support to the fossil fuel divestment campaign, which calls on investors to ditch their holdings in...
Vatican Bank director Paolo Cipriani and his deputy Massimo Tulli resigned from their posts on Monday after three people, including a priest, were arrested in June...
The world’s 1.2 billion Catholics have a new leader, after Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was elected Pope Francis I in an historic ceremony at the Vatican...
In the 2011 Italian comedy, We Have a Pope (Habemus Papam), a reluctant cardinal is elected pope in conclave, goes into hiding, seeks therapy and eventually...