The Vatican is expected to soon announce that it will return a few dozen artifacts sought by Indigenous communities in Canada. It's part of its reckoning with the Catholic Church’s troubled role

Vatican News articles about Catholic feast days have continued to regularly feature Father Rupnik’s art after public abuse accusations were made against the Slovenian priest at the end of 2022. On the Vatican website, the Holy See’s communications ...

The Vatican has recognized an Australian bishop’s synodal plan to restructure the governance of his diocese. The Vatican’s General Secretariat of the Synod has officially recognized a pastoral plan laid out by Bishop Michael Kennedy of Maitland-Newcastle that will see the diocese adopting a governance structure that “will operate in synodal mode.”

Pope Leo XIV gives his blessing at the conclusion of his first weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican May 21, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — All the speeches and messages Pope Leo XIV has given since becoming pope ...

A mosaic by Father Marko Rupnik on the Church of Our Lady of the Canadian Martyrs in Rome, Italy, on June 28, 2024. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.) Listen Images of artwork created by a disgraced celebrity cleric accused of serial sexual and other abuse ...

VATICAN CITY — Shortly before Pope Benedict XVI published his first encyclical Deus Caritas Est (God Is Love), the Vatican reasserted its legal ownership of works by the Pope, sparking a public dispute with an Italian publisher. Since 1978, the Vatican ...