WITH ruthless ambition, suspense and even spies, hit movie Conclave lays bare the fight to succeed as a new Pope. The ...

The pope has faced several health challenges in recent years, including knee problems requiring a wheelchair, respiratory ...

Ordained as a bishop by a traditionalist sect, he was excommunicated then reinstated by the Vatican, but was undone by his ...

Since it became independent in 1929, Vatican City has been the world’s smallest state. Every evening the gates close, leaving ...

All priests are required to maintain celibacy. Homosexual men can train to become Catholic priests in Italy but not if they "support the so-called gay culture", according to new guidelines approved by ...

Caught between his progressive inner circle and an influx of conservatism, the Holy Father should 'brace' himself for a ...

On Sunday the Vatican official tasked with suppressing a Peru-based lay group plagued by scandal announced that not just one, ...

In brief statement published on its website, Sodalitium said process of its dissolution would 'begin in the coming days' ...

In the early 1990s a Catholic deacon called Yvon Bertorello was sent to train for four years at the Minerva, a college run by the Vatican to prepare its top priests for overseas postings.