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May 14, 2024 · The Vatican’s Gamble With Beijing Is Costing China’s Catholics. In trying to hold the Church together, Pope Francis has compromised on religious freedom. By Francis X. Rocca. Illustration...
6 days ago · By NICOLE WINFIELD. Updated 7:12 AM PDT, May 21, 2024. ROME (AP) — The Vatican made another big overture to China on Tuesday, reaffirming the Catholic Church poses no threat to Beijing’s sovereignty and admitting that Western missionaries had made “errors” in past centuries in their zeal to convert the Chinese faithful.
6 days ago · The Vatican made another big overture to China on Tuesday, reaffirming the Catholic Church poses no threat to Beijing’s sovereignty and admitting that Western missionaries had made “errors” in...
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May 18, 2024 · May 17, 2024 5:27 PM PT. VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has overhauled its process for evaluating alleged visions of the Virgin Mary, weeping statues and other seemingly supernatural phenomena...
May 9, 2024 · VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican crossed a key milestone Thursday in the runup to its 2025 Jubilee with the promulgation of the official decree establishing the Holy Year. It’s a once-every-quarter-century event that is expected to bring some 32 million pilgrims to Rome and has already brought months of headaches to Romans.
Feb 29, 2024 · Human rights, including those against freedom of thought, conscience and religion, continue to be violated on an alarming scale across the globe, the Holy See's Permanent Observer to the United Nations and Other International Organisations in Geneva said on Wednesday. Discrimination and persecution of believers are on the rise
As governed by the Holy See, Vatican City State is an ecclesiastical or sacerdotal-monarchical state ruled by the Pope, who is the bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic Church. The highest state functionaries are all Catholic clergy of various origins.