Pope Leo XIV inherited a Vatican with strained relations with Israel. Will the ceasefire in the Gaza war reinforce a ...

He assembled a network of activists that hid thousands of fugitives, including many escaped Allied prisoners of war ...

Pope Leo XIV has pledged to rebuild trust with the Jewish community, but a top cardinal’s reference to Israel’s offensive as ...

The Vatican’s child protection board says the Catholic Church has a moral duty to help victims of clergy sexual abuse heal ...

The Latin Patriarchate is a Catholic Church diocese whose territory covers Palestine, Israel, Jordan and Cyprus. Formed in ...

The Italian nuns canonized are Vincenza Maria Poloni, the 19th-century founder of Verona's Institute of the Sisters of Mercy, ...

The recognition of Palestine in late September by France, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia was a positive development, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said, "but we note ...

The Vatican’s child protection board says the Catholic Church has a moral duty to help victims of clergy sexual abuse heal.

The Vatican's top diplomat sharply criticised Israel's "ongoing massacre" in Gaza in comments published on Monday - one of the Catholic Church's strongest condemnations of Israel's war against the ...

The Hamas attack on Israel two years ago "was inhuman and indefensible," the Vatican secretary of state said, and Israel's two-year-long war on Gaza has had "disastrous and inhuman consequences." "It ...

On Oct. 19, 1781, Britain's Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered with more than 7,000 troops to Gen. George Washington at ...