After the incident, Pope Leo ordered emergency purification rites "to restore the holiness of the place and ask forgiveness ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV thanked Italy on Tuesday for its efforts to combat human trafficking but urged the country to remain ...

In most countries, the age of consent is between 16 and 18, but there are outliers. And in some countries, different ...

Christians must avoid using their faith to label those who are different -- often the poor -- as enemies to be avoided and ...

In the presence of the original statue of Our Lady of Fatima, which has one of the bullets from the attempted assassination ...

Pope Leo XIV has thanked Italy for its efforts to combat human trafficking but urged the country to remain open to welcoming ...

The Vatican took the unusual step on Monday of announcing that it had named judges to decide the fate of a famous ex-Jesuit ...

A man climbed onto the central altar at St Peter s Basilica in Vatican City on Friday and urinated in full view of tourists ...

Vatican security removed a man who disrupted St. Peter's Basilica by climbing onto the altar, with Pope Leo reportedly ...

A man urinated on a Vatican altar during a holy mass as hundreds of tourists looked on in disgust at the act of desecration Friday, according to local reports. The unidentified man began his sickening ...

The third and last time the image of Our Lady of Fátima was in Rome was in October 2013, at the request of Pope Francis, who ...

A powerful Vatican cardinal caught up in a real estate scandal resigned suddenly on Thursday and gave up his right to take part in an eventual conclave to elect a pope, in one of the most mysterious ...