A young Italian couple has gone to court in the Vatican tribunal to challenge a new ban on workplace marriages imposed by the Vatican bank.

The pope’s comments provided the latest indication of a potential rekindling of frictions between the Vatican and the next Trump White House.

Pope Francis has said he wants to give women greater leadership roles in the Roman Catholic Church. If he really wants to make good on that vow, writes Rich Barlow, he should reconsider Catholicism’s insistence on an all-male priesthood.

The president of Haiti’s transitional presidential council said that the Trump administration’s decisions to freeze aid programs, deport migrants and block refugees will be “catastrophic.”

Pope Welcomes Cuba's Prisoner Release Following Talks With Vatican as Part of Long-Standing Dialogue ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday hailed the release of Cuban prisoners as a “gesture of great hope” that he prayed would be undertaken elsewhere ...

A BOWL made from a churchyard yew tree by a local woodturner has been presented to Pope Francis by the Bishop of Norwich, the Rt Revd Graham Usher, during his ecumenical pilgrimage to Rome earlier this month.

Pope Francis has long urged couples to marry and have babies rather than dogs. He also has long championed the rights of workers and held up labor itself as the foundation of human dignity.

It has come as a surprise to many in the Holy See that the Vatican bank fired a newlywed couple, with three young children between them, after a new internal bank regulation went into effect barring workplace marriages.

An Italian priest has been excommunicated from the Catholic Church for saying Pope Francis is not the real pope.

Templars Today, a private association of lay faithful, signed an agreement with the Vatican’s Dicastery for Evangelization to assist jubilee pilgrims in Rome.

A young Italian couple is going to court in the Vatican tribunal to challenge a new ban on workplace marriages imposed by the Vatican bank

Hope is the mainstay that undergirds Pope Francis’ entire life and is the thread that holds together this long narrative, even in the pages in which he recounts true horrors,” commented Carlo Musso, the Italian editor of Pope Francis’ autobiographical work “Hope,