Vatican News

pope francis has praised the life and testimony of italian father pino puglisi 30 years after he was gunned down by mafia hitmen. in a lette...

Elise Allen

rome – a 53-year-old whose identity has not been divulged was arrested on friday after leading police on a long chase through rome, which en...

Crux Staff

rome – on wednesday the jesuit-run university of central america (uca) in nicaragua issued a statement condemning a government decree confis...

Elise Allen

rome – in the heart of italy’s mob country, a new catholic parish is being dedicated to the premier patron saints of the anti-mafia effort, ...

John L Allen

the 90,000 lay members and roughly 2,000 priests of opus dei, a worldwide catholic organisation which is currently the church’s lone persona...

Crux Staff

it is notoriously risky to compare two large historical movements, especially recent or contemporary ones, and to claim to detect similariti...

Martin Henry

lisbon – in a sign of the rapidly expanding influence that asian catholicism is having in the global church, pope francis announced on sunda...

Elise Ann Allen

rome — a broad consensus regards pope francis, who today wraps up a five-day trip to lisbon for world youth day, as a revolutionary figure. ...

John L Allen

lisbon – young people from china attending world youth day in lisbon have praised pope francis’s kindness and invited him to visit, saying c...

Elise Ann Allen

umbria in italy beckons for the next catholic herald pilgrimage at the end of september. we are venturing beyond the iberian peninsula to wa...

James Jeffrey