The post to the pontifical commission for the Vatican City State is not hugely influential, but the appointment nonetheless ...

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 ...

Pope Francis on Saturday accepted the resignation of the bishop of the Polish diocese of Kalisz who has been accused of shielding priests known to have sexually abused children.

The Pope acknowledged "resistance in some parts of the world" to permanently remove a priest who abuses a child, the group ...

The 63-year-old Austrian priest, who has served as apostolic administrator for the Archdiocese of Vienna since January, will succeed Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, who has led the archdiocese since ...

The Pope's remarks, at a speech in Castel Gondolfo near Rome, will be seen as an implied criticism of US President Donald ...

Cardinal Schönborn, a theologian who led the Archdiocese of Vienna for 30 years, helped write the Catechism of the Catholic ...

A Vatican commission for the protection of children has said the mishandling by the Catholic Church’s leaders of sexual abuse ...

Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of Bishop Edward Scharfenberger.The Vatican made the announcement Monday morning.

Here's what's true — and what's false — about rumors that Leo is replacing New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who called Kirk a "modern-day St. Paul." ...

The Vatican rarely gives reasons for a bishop's removal, even in cases involving abuse, preferring to say simply that the pope accepted the bishop's resignation. "The lack of accountability for Church ...

Pope Leo XIV called for urgent ecological conversion and decisive global action on climate justice as he addressed more than 1,000 participants at the Raising Hope for Climate Justice conference on ...