The Vatican has long been an important channel for peace negotiations, and Pope Francis has repeatedly called for an end to the fighting both in Ukraine and in the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas ...

ROME – When Pope Francis was elected in 2013, Italians initially made much of the fact that his father’s family hailed from the nothern Italian region of Piedmont. It quickly emerged, however, that on ...

VATICAN CITY — As the world commemorates the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, how does history view the efforts of Pope Benedict XV to end what later became known as “the war to end ...

In 1981, Pope John Paul II named Cardinal Ratzinger as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The cardinal’s conservative stance drew him closer to John Paul and he became one of ...

President Biden visited the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See, the Vatican’s diplomatic mission, in Washington on Thursday to offer his condolences following the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI ...