A young Italian couple is going to court in the Vatican tribunal to challenge a new ban on workplace marriages imposed by the ...

The pope’s comments provided the latest indication of a potential rekindling of frictions between the Vatican and the next ...

C onflicting SIGNALS are reaching the new American administration from Rome. And some carry a whiff of incense. While Italy’s ...

ROME — Pope Francis on Sunday hailed the release of Cuban prisoners as a “gesture of great hope” that he prayed would be ...

ROME (Reuters) - Rome's chief Jewish rabbi on Thursday sharply criticised Pope Francis over the pontiff's recent ramping up ...

When Alessandro Michele was growing up in Rome in the 1970s, one of his favorite pastimes was to rummage through his mother’s ...

Pope Francis indicated that the Catholic Church was willing to accept a common date for celebrating Easter in the West and ...

The rabbi accused Pope Francis of fueling anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish sentiments by focusing on the suffering of ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving a Peruvian-based Catholic movement, the Sodalitium ...

During an ecumenical prayer service at St. Paul Outside the Walls to mark the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, ...

Trump adviser Steve Bannon attempted to create a monastery near Rome to prepare the next generation of Catholic conservatives ...

Francis spent much of the past decade in relatively good health but has dealt with several painful medical conditions over ...