Vatican News

Pope Leo XIV lamented the divisions surrounding the celebration of the Latin Mass and called on the French bishops' conference to find solutions that include those attached to the old form of Mass.

The Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has released a new document describing the "Anglican heritage" of the Catholic Church's personal ordinariates as a permanent reality that makes a "distinctive contribution" to the Church's evangelizing mission.

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen will be beatified on Sept. 24 in St. Louis, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints announced March 25.

The Vatican's appeals court declared a partial mistrial in the high-profile financial misconduct case involving Cardinal Angelo Becciu and other defendants.

Pope Leo XIV met privately March 11 with the cardinal archbishop of Tehran after the Belgian-born prelate was evacuated from Iran amid U.S. and Israeli military strikes on the country.

Praying at the tombs of the Apostles in Rome, Cardinal Peter Ebere Okpaleke said he laid down "the joys, pains and hopes" of the Catholic Church in Nigeria.

The Vatican has published the final report of the synod study group examining women's participation in the Church, which calls for expanded roles for women in Church governance and leadership in roles not including ordained ministry.

Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Louis Sako, the Iraq-based Chaldean Catholic patriarch of Baghdad, ending his 13-year tenure leading Iraq’s largest Christian denomination, the Vatican said.

The Vatican has released the schedule for Pope Leo XIV's day trip to Monaco, the first papal visit to the Catholic principality in the modern era.

More than 50 years before the first Paralympic Games were held in 1960 in Rome, the Vatican had already hosted what might have been the very first international sporting and gymnastics event with athletes living with disabilities.