Organisers and participants alike have tried to temper expectations for any big changes to emerge, especially on hot-button doctrinal issues such as the church's views on homosexuality.
Russia's new ambassador to the Vatican Ivan Soltanovsky was presenting his credentials to Francis, signalling the official start of his term.
Pope Francis had part of one lung removed when he was a young man due to a respiratory infection, and he often speaks in a whisper. But he got through the worst phases of the Covid-19 pandemic without at least any public...
In an update to his landmark 2015 encyclical on the environment, Francis heightened the alarm about the 'irreversible' harm to people and planet already under way and lamented that once again, the world's poor and most...
More than 6.6 million Jews were killed by the Nazi Germany during the World War II under what's called the Holocaust. Other groups like the Poles and Russians were also part of the systemic killings.
Survivors have long complained that the Vatican for decades turned a blind eye to bishops and religious superiors who covered up cases of abuse, moving predator priests around from parish to parish rather than reporting them...
For the first time, women and laypeople can vote on specific proposals alongside bishops, a radical change that is evidence of Francis' belief that the church is more about its flock than its shepherds.
The trailer of the film 'The Pope's Exorcist', unravels the terrifying possession of a young boy and an intervention by Father Gabriele Amorth played by the Academy Award-winner Russell Crowe.
Pope Francis also said that homosexuality is a sin and not a crime. The Vatican maintains that it cannot bless homosexual marriages 'because God cannot bless...
Benedict XVI stunned the world on Feb. 11, 2013, when he announced, in his typical, soft-spoken Latin, that he no longer had the strength to run the 1.2...
Sreebhumi Sporting Club near Lake Town, situated on the northern fringes of Kolkata, has created quite a frenzy among people as it themed its Durga Puja Pandal...
Hollywood Actor Russell Crowe will star in Julian Avery's film 'The Pope's Exorcist'. It is based on the memoirs of Father Gabriel Amorth, who performed over...
Devasahayam was an official in the court of Travancore’s Maharaja when he converted to Christianity in 1745, taking the name 'Lazarus'.
The length and breadth of the church area will be 270 feet each and its height will be 177 feet, he said. There will be 30,000 seats inside the building and...
Pope Francis in an extraordinary step, last week, went to the Russian Embassy to the Holy See to meet with the Russian ambassador, the Vatican number two...
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A leading Catholic LGBTQ advocacy group is praising a Vatican official for apologizing for the pain caused when he yanked a reference to the group on the...
PM Modi is also the first Indian Prime Minister Francis has met since becoming Pope in 2013.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a tweet said there was a discussion ‘about ways to strengthen the friendship between India and Italy’.
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The first stop of his Europe trip for the devout Catholic US president is an audience with the pope, before pressing the case for democratic values and US...
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Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said the Vatican delegation would be led by the secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who acts as the prime minister of...
Switzerland has been diplomatically represented at the Vatican since 1991, though the post of ambassador was held by diplomats based in Bern, Geneva, Prague...
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In a front-page article in the Friday edition of L'Osservatore Romano, deputy editor Gaetano Vallini said the West was obliged to urgently remedy the situation...
