Vatican

The Emeritus pope exerted no influence and pulled no strings

The former pope's body will be placed in St. Peter’s Basilica from Jan. 2 for the faithful's greeting

The 95-year-old Pope Emeritus "is very sick" due to his advanced age

Pope Francis on Wednesday appointed three women to the Vatican's Dicastery for Bishops, continuing his policy of opening up top Church jobs to women. It is the first time that women have been allowed to serve in such a capacity....

In recent days it has been announced that Pope Francis is thinking of resigning, as did his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI did on 28 February 2013. The newspaper Libero reported on Aug. 23 that there was "a conclave in the...

Pope Francis on Monday urged fraternal dialogue in politics, rather than hostile negotiations. "Politics is above all the art of meeting," Francis told the French ecumenical Chemin Neuf Community. "Certainly this meeting must be lived welcoming the other and accepting...

The white metal roofing may protect the statues from rain, but it belongs at the entrance to an airport, shopping center, or hospital, not as the roof of a crèche. At night the lighting is very dim so the statues...

Two weeks ago, I received a press release from Sarah Lemieux, the Publicity Coordinator of Sophia Institute Press, about its hot-off-the-press publication, The Vatican Christmas Cookbook. It’s the sequel to the Institute’s best seller The Vatican Cookbook, which I reviewed...

It's a really complicated issue, because in an intricate round of information and contradictions  we find the Pope, a cardinal and several million euros. That of Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu is a matter already known for a few months. In...

There are doubts about a new documentary in which it seems that Pope Francis approves civil unions between persons of the same sex regarding what the Pope really said and how he said it. It also appears that the video...