Australian cardinal George Pell (77), a very influential man in the Vatican, has been sentenced to six years in prison in Australia. The former senior official of the Vatican was...
Cardinal George Pell (77), a very influential man in the Vatican, has been found guilty in five court charges in Australia for abuse of two 13-year-old executives at the end of...
Pope Francis has said at the end of a four-day conference on combating child abuse among clergymen that this should no longer occur and no more cases concealed...
Investigations into priests of the Catholic Church who abused children have been destroyed or even never made.
Two prominent cardinals state in an open letter that 'a homosexual plague' within the Vatican promotes child abuse. This gives them the impression of blaming homosexuality in particular...
The Vatican is a stronghold of homosexuality. It contains one of the largest homosexual communities in the world. In the Vatican there is not just a gay lobby. Homosexuality is there...
Attempts by the Vatican to tackle child abuse among clerics are doomed to failure. 'The Vatican does not take the most important measure. Clergy must be...
Nuns have suffered from abuse by priests and bishops, who even treated them as sex slaves.
Many people would be delighted with a generous gift like this. But Pope Francis wants to get rid of this flashy car that he got from car brand Lamborghini. Who wants to make a chance at...
Pope Francis called for peace in Syria and Yemen in his Christmas speech prior to the 'Urbi et orbi'. He also hopes that the peace talks between the Palestinians and...
A little boy who escaped his mother on Wednesday on the stage where the Pope held a public audience, went on to play there.
Human remains recently found in a Vatican building in Rome are probably not two teenage girls who disappeared in Rome in 1983. That would be apparent from the first research results.
Thanks to a verdict from the European Court of Justice, Italy could receive a billions of euros from the Vatican. But Italy probably does not want to go into it, despite the fact that Italy needs much money.
An initial investigation of the bones found under the Vatican Embassy in Rome suggests that they are from a woman. That reports the BBC.
The accidental, sinister discovery of human bones beneath the floor of the Vatican embassy in Rome provides possible after 35 years of clarification about the mysterious disappearance of two Italian girls in 1983. The Vatican news agency came forward with the discovery of the find. Research is now being done on the bones in order to learn more about the identity of the deceased person. Who knows, maybe it's about Emanuela Orlandi. The girl was 15 years old when she went to music school in 1983 and then disappeared without a trace.
The Indian police have arrested a Roman Catholic bishop for raping a nun. The nun had said that bishop Franco Mulakkal misused her several times over a period of two years.
Pope Francis had a private meeting Wednesday with U2 singer Bono in the Vatican. They discussed, among other things, the abuse scandal in the Catholic Church in Bono's native country of Ireland.
Pope Francis has called all presidents of bishops' conferences of the world to Rome to discuss the fight against the sexual abuse of minors by clergy. This is what the Vatican said on Wednesday.
The African migrants who had to stay on board a ship in the port of Catania for over a week were detained in Libya for two years by smugglers. They were beaten, tortured and raped there before they made the crossing to Europe, reports the International Organization for Migration of the United Nations.
No matter how many times the Pope asks for forgiveness for the abuse in the Catholic Church, Dutch parishioners are fed up with new scandals, according to a round trip. Henk Rijkers of the conservative Catholic foundation Civitas Christiana hopes for a move that makes others impossible: that Pope Francis resigns.
Pope Francis refuses to accept accusations that he has covered up abuse scandals within the Roman Catholic Church. During his return trip to Rome, the spiritual leader on the plane said that the document with the allegations 'speaks for itself'. and that he does not want to elaborate on it.
Matt Talbot, a Dubliner who died in 1925, was once a notorious slap. Now he is on his way to becoming a saint. Pope Francis will honor him on Saturday during his visit to predominantly Catholic Ireland, but not by giving a toast.
Pope Francis, in an open letter to the 1.2 billion Roman Catholics worldwide, has shown 'shame and remorse' about abuse by clergy. The letter is a reaction to another abuse case, this time in the US, where- again- the clergy tried to cover up the abuse.
Pope Francis, who was confronted with countless instances of sexual abuse of minors by priests in various countries, has written a letter on unprecedented paws about these scandals. He called on all Roman Catholics in the world to help 'eradicate this culture of death'.
The Vatican has responded with dismay to the reports of long-term and large-scale child abuse by Catholic clergy in the United States.
Investigative authorities in the US state of Pennsylvania have revealed shocking details about sexual abuse by priests and silence about it by the Catholic Church in the US.
The popular Italian Roman Catholic periodical Famiglia Cristiana (Christian Family) has defied Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini by comparing him with the devil.
A former diplomat of the Vatican has been sentenced to five years in prison for the possession and distribution of child pornography. The court in the Vatican also imposed a fine of 5000 euros on Saturday.
A 525-year-old copy of a letter from Christopher Columbus that was stolen from the Vatican was returned to the Pope on Thursday. This happened after joint investigation by the American Ministry of Security and archaeological experts from the Holy See.
The world has to generate and use clean energy sources. 'Civilization requires energy, but energy must not destroy civilization.' Pope Francis said this in a speech to leaders from the international oil and gas sector.
