French Archbishop Thibault Verny is the Vatican's new president of its Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors ...

Pope Leo XIV is signalling his commitment to continuing the fight against clergy sexual abuse. He has appointed a French ...

A view of the Papal or Apostolic Palace, a historic summer retreat for popes in the lakeside town of Castel Gandolfo, about ...

The Pakistani Supreme Court’s three-judge bench has freed Anwar Kenneth, a mentally ill Catholic man, who spent 23 years on death row after being convicted of committing blasphemy.

Pope Leo XIV on July 3 appointed two prominent cardinals, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, and ...

In 2019, cardinals were stunned when Vatican police raided the Secretariat of State for the Vatican, the city-state’s central bureaucracy, over the investment.

Two Vatican trials are coming to a head this week and both underscore Pope Francis’ power as an absolute monarch and the legal, financial and reputational problems that can arise when he wields it.

Vatican Man who rammed car through Vatican gate sent to psych ward Suspect, a male in his 40s, taken to Santo Spirito after spending night in Vatican police barracks ...

Vatican police fire at car rushing through security, arrest driver It was not immediately clear whether Pope Francis, shown this week in St. Peter’s Square, was near Santa Anna gate during ...

An Italian police car passes in front of St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, late Thursday, May 18, 2023. A car driven by someone with apparent psychiatric problems rushed through Santa Anna gate ...

A Vatican police officer runs to his position as Pope Francis greets the crowd after a canonization Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 15, 2017. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.) Listen ...

Then in 2012, the Vatican’s chief exorcist Gabriele Amorth claimed Orlandi was kidnapped by Vatican police as part of a sex ring.