Pope Francis

Rumours circulate that Vatican-owned hospital looking for buyers due to labour shortages and debt

rome – a series of reports in the italian press last week suggested that padre pio's hospital administration has been in negotiations with s...

Pope Francis to visit Corsica in December

rome – after weeks of rumours about a potential papal visit, the french diocese of ajaccio announced this week that pope francis will make a...

Elise Ann Allen

Canonisation dates for Blesseds Acutis and Frassati confirmed by Pope Francis

pope francis during his weekly general audience announced the canonisation dates of two of the catholic church’s most popular young saints-i...

Holocaust survivor rebukes Pope Francis for suggesting Israel's actions in Gaza are 'genocide'

rome – a 93-year-old holocaust survivor who once received pope francis in her rome apartment, and who later wrote a book about the experienc...

Pope Francis should not be criticised for promoting a settlement in Ukraine

long ago, one cold february evening in oxford, i made the short journey to st aldate’s church to hear a panel, including the then bisho...

Don't mess with Catholics: their vote played a crucial role in Donald Trump’s extraordinary victory

analysis of the results of the us presidential election has shown that former president donald trump won the national catholic vote by a fif...

Disappointment in all directions: Is anyone actually happy with the outcome of the Synod on Synodality?

cardinal robert mcelroy of san diego, a key papal ally, spoke last february at the religious education congress in los angeles, the largest ...

Italian priests sanctioned for decrying Pope Francis as an ‘anti-pope’

two clerics in italy have been sanctioned for the crime of schism after both publicly argued that pope francis was never validly elected and...

Con man dressed as Franciscan priest arrested while impersonating Vatican prelate

a well-known italian confidence trickster popularly known as “king of the con” was recently arrested in rome while dressed as a franciscan p...

Vatican's Christmas tree controversy over 'Green Giant'

this year's supply of christmas trees to decorate the vatican during advent and christmastide is not going smoothly. one might think that of...