Tag: vatican

In a deeply symbolic incident, King Charles III has become the first British sovereign in 500 years to join a Catholic Pope in prayer. Although Charles has met the last ...

Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Catholic Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem and his Greek Orthodox counterpart, Theophilos III, have led a delegation to the Holy Family Church, Gaza’s only Roman Catholic church. The ...

The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem has announced that Israeli forces have bombed Gaza’s only Catholic church, killing three people and wounding at least 10 others. According to the Catholic charity Caritas ...

Pope Leo XIV has met Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, marking the second in-person encounter between the two leaders since Leo was elected as head of the global Catholic Church in ...

US Vice President, JD Vance has extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States during a meeting at the Vatican. It came ahead of a flurry of U.S.-led ...

The new Pope has been revealed as Robert Prevost of the US, the first American Pontiff in history. He’ll be known as Pope Leo XIV.  Prevost, age 69, now Pope ...

White smoke has risen above the Sistine Chapel, the signal that cardinals have chosen a new Pope. This came on the second day of the conclave. His identity, and the ...

The funeral of Pope Francis has begun with an elaborate set of rituals at St. Peter’s square, six days after he made his final public appearance for Easter. According to the Vatican, ...

The Vatican is making final preparations for Pope Francis’ funeral on Saturday, April 26, 2025. The funeral requires a huge and complex security operation in the Vatican and Rome involving ...

The Italian government has declared five days of mourning after Pope Francis’ death, a decision made at a meeting of the ministers. The period of mourning will last until Saturday, April 26, 2025, the ...