Defense lawyers in the Vatican’s “trial of the century” argued Tuesday that Pope Francis inadvertently violated the ...

The appeal of the fraud conviction of a Catholic cardinal resumed in the Vatican on Tuesday after a pause in proceedings following the resignation of the case's chief prosecutor for alleged ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As the Vatican’s highest appeals court reviews the landmark finance trial, defense lawyers are ...

Catholic priests threaten schism with Rome over bishop consecrations as SSPX plans July ceremony without papal approval, escalating decades-long conflict.

The Vatican will meet next week with the leader of a traditionalist group that announced plans to consecrate new bishops ...

The Priestly Society of St. Pius X, widely known as SSPX, has announced it will ordain bishops without papal permission on July 1, an act that would lead to the automatic excommunication of both the ...

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, warned that blogs and online ...

Ahead of his 80th birthday, Cardinal Christophe Pierre sat down with ‘EWTN News In Depth’ anchor Catherine Hadro to discuss ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Cardinal Pietro Parolin urges restraint by federal agents as Catholic bishops in the United States ...

Peru’s ambassador to the Holy See has publicly invited Pope Leo XIV to visit. The invitation, delivered during a Saturday ceremony in the Vatican gardens, confirms that 2026 is shaping up to be an ...

He seemed to know everyone at the Holy See, and it showed in his reporting for the National Catholic Reporter and his website ...

The Vatican, the smallest state in the world, possesses a unique and complex legal, administrative, and spiritual structure designed to guarantee the independence of the pope and allow the Church to ...