Pope Francis joins religious organizations and world leaders in calling for an end to the scourge of human trafficking on the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons.

What is probably the Vatican’s highest stakes trial yet began this week, featuring a cast of both new and familiar characters being indicted for an array of financial crimes.

From Thursday, the Global Catholic Climate Movement will be known as the Laudato sí Movement. Climate and integral ecology are at the heart of the Movement, which takes its cue from Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical on care for our common home. Speaking with Vatican News, the executive director of LSM, Tomás Insua, speaks about a “synodal journey” aimed at a deeper ecological conversion. As the Movement continues to renew itself, Pope Francis offers a word of thanks for its work.

Br. Guy Consolmagno, SJ, astronomer and Director of the Vatican Observatory, talks about new space frontiers, space travel and the need to take care of the entirety of our common home.

Catholics and non-believers alike are waiting for Pope Francis’ September 12-15 visit to Slovakia, the spokesman for the bishops’ conference told journalists on Wednesday, saying that, if given the chance, he’d ask the pontiff to focus on boosting locals in their faith.

The trial over the use Secretariat of State funds began on Tuesday in the courtroom of the Vatican Museums. The defense attorneys for the ten defendants presented preliminary motions. The next hearing is scheduled for October 5.

As a 3-day United Nations meeting on food systems concluded onhttps://news.diocesetucson.org/news#pageTagSection Wednesday in Rome, Caritas Internationalis urged decision-makers to include the rights of the poor in all discussions and decision-making processes.

On the eve of a trial for financial malfeasance connected to the Vatican's purchase of a property in London, the office that handles most of the Vatican's investment portfolio, including real estate, made public a summary of its annual budget for the first time.

The Vatican press office said Pope Francis, who had colon surgery July 4, would not preside over a liturgy July 25 marking the first World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly.

Last Friday, Pope Francis rolled back what some considered his predecessor’s olive branch to traditionalist Catholics by severely restricting celebration of the old Latin Mass. The move essentially reversed a liberalization of the older rite decreed by Pope emeritus Benedict XVI in 2007.

Pope Francis' letter explaining why he was restricting the use of the pre-Vatican II Mass "fearlessly hits the nail on the head: the TLM (Traditional Latin Mass) movement has hijacked the initiatives of St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI to its own ends," said Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia, who insisted he was speaking as a theologian and not as a Vatican official.

The Vatican released the names of members of two commissions charged with assisting the leaders of the Synod of Bishops' general secretariat in reviewing documents, drafting resources and developing best practices.

Pope Francis expressed his closeness to the people of Cuba a week after protests erupted on the island nation.

Pope Francis expressed his gratitude to the medical staff at Rome's Gemelli hospital after his recovery from intestinal surgery.

In what will inevitably be seen in some quarters as a rollback of the legacy of his predecessor Pope emeritus Benedict XVI, whatever his actual intentions, Pope Francis on Friday tightened permission for celebration of the pre-Vatican II Latin Mass, the use of which had been liberalized under Benedict.

Pope Francis on Friday appointed Father Deepak Valerian Tauro as Auxiliary Bishop of Delhi Archdiocese.

Pope Francis publishes a motu proprio on Friday to redefine the use of the pre-Vatican missal granting the decision to allow its use the local bishops. Groups attending the pre-Vatican liturgy must not deny the validity of the liturgical reform dictated by the Second Vatican Council and the magisterium of the Supreme Pontiffs.

A Vatican prosecutor requested that Father Gabriele Martinelli, who is accused of sexually abusing a younger student at the St. Pius X Pre-Seminary, be sentenced to six years in prison if convicted.

Here is the Vatican's official English translation of "'Traditionis Custodes' on the Use of the Roman Liturgy Prior to the Reform of 1970," an apostolic letter issued by Pope Francis "motu proprio" July 16

Pope Francis offered prayers and expressed his closeness with the people of Germany after severe flooding in the western part of the country claimed the lives of more than 80 people.

Pope Francis joins religious organizations and world leaders in calling for an end to the scourge of human trafficking on the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons.

What is probably the Vatican’s highest stakes trial yet began this week, featuring a cast of both new and familiar characters being indicted for an array of financial crimes.

From Thursday, the Global Catholic Climate Movement will be known as the Laudato sí Movement. Climate and integral ecology are at the heart of the Movement, which takes its cue from Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical on care for our common home. Speaking with Vatican News, the executive director of LSM, Tomás Insua, speaks about a “synodal journey” aimed at a deeper ecological conversion. As the Movement continues to renew itself, Pope Francis offers a word of thanks for its work.

Br. Guy Consolmagno, SJ, astronomer and Director of the Vatican Observatory, talks about new space frontiers, space travel and the need to take care of the entirety of our common home.

Catholics and non-believers alike are waiting for Pope Francis’ September 12-15 visit to Slovakia, the spokesman for the bishops’ conference told journalists on Wednesday, saying that, if given the chance, he’d ask the pontiff to focus on boosting locals in their faith.

The trial over the use Secretariat of State funds began on Tuesday in the courtroom of the Vatican Museums. The defense attorneys for the ten defendants presented preliminary motions. The next hearing is scheduled for October 5.

As a 3-day United Nations meeting on food systems concluded onhttps://news.diocesetucson.org/news#pageTagSection Wednesday in Rome, Caritas Internationalis urged decision-makers to include the rights of the poor in all discussions and decision-making processes.

On the eve of a trial for financial malfeasance connected to the Vatican's purchase of a property in London, the office that handles most of the Vatican's investment portfolio, including real estate, made public a summary of its annual budget for the first time.

The Vatican press office said Pope Francis, who had colon surgery July 4, would not preside over a liturgy July 25 marking the first World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly.

Last Friday, Pope Francis rolled back what some considered his predecessor’s olive branch to traditionalist Catholics by severely restricting celebration of the old Latin Mass. The move essentially reversed a liberalization of the older rite decreed by Pope emeritus Benedict XVI in 2007.

Pope Francis' letter explaining why he was restricting the use of the pre-Vatican II Mass "fearlessly hits the nail on the head: the TLM (Traditional Latin Mass) movement has hijacked the initiatives of St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI to its own ends," said Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia, who insisted he was speaking as a theologian and not as a Vatican official.

The Vatican released the names of members of two commissions charged with assisting the leaders of the Synod of Bishops' general secretariat in reviewing documents, drafting resources and developing best practices.

Pope Francis expressed his closeness to the people of Cuba a week after protests erupted on the island nation.

Pope Francis expressed his gratitude to the medical staff at Rome's Gemelli hospital after his recovery from intestinal surgery.

In what will inevitably be seen in some quarters as a rollback of the legacy of his predecessor Pope emeritus Benedict XVI, whatever his actual intentions, Pope Francis on Friday tightened permission for celebration of the pre-Vatican II Latin Mass, the use of which had been liberalized under Benedict.

Pope Francis on Friday appointed Father Deepak Valerian Tauro as Auxiliary Bishop of Delhi Archdiocese.