Pope Francis was welcomed by palm frond-waving crowds in Mauritius as he drove past sugarcane fields on his way to the capital.
Pope Francis thanked rescuers who put their lives at risk to salvage the medieval Catholic cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris from a devastating blaze.
A Vatican official issued a scathing open letter accusing an archbishop who launched an attack on Pope Francis, of mounting a 'political frame job'.
Australian Archbishop Philip Wilson, a senior cleric found guilty of concealing child sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church, has resigned.
A Catholic priest who worked as a diplomat at the Vatican's embassy in Washington was indicted on charges of possessing child pornography.
Finland is the world's happiest country, according to an annual survey issued that put Burundi at the bottom of the happiness index.
Pope Francis called for Jerusalem's 'status quo' to be respected, saying new tension in the Middle East would further inflame world conflicts.
Pope Francis has ordered a ban on the sale of cigarettes inside the Vatican from next year because of health concerns, a spokesperson said
The Vatican has pledged to seek the truth about one of its diplomats whom it recalled after he came under suspicion of possessing child pornography.
An earthquake hit the tourist-packed Italian holiday island of Ischia on Monday night, collapsing buildings, killing at least two people and injuring dozens
Pope Francis said Mass before tens of thousands of people under exceptional security measures in St. Peter's Square.
The Vatican condemned the leak of Pope Francis's keenly awaited encyclical on the environment, but did not deny the document's authenticity.
If there is any mind an art restorer would die to get into, it would be that of Leonardo da Vinci.
The Catacombs of Priscilla contain frescoes of women that have provoked academic debate for many years.
Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi has come under fire from a Vatican heavyweight amid a sex scandal shaking his government.
The Vatican’s clarification of the pope’s condom comments has been hailed as “groundbreaking” by some theologians.
The Vatican has named two cardinals and three archbishops from England, the United States and Canada to lead its official inquiry into sexual abuse of children by ...