A priest has found two bags with a total of 36,000 euros in banknotes in a confessional seat near the Vatican. The enigmatic find was done in the church Santa Maria delle Grazie all Fornaci.
Pope Francis, a great sports enthusiast, has given his first blessing on the first women's football game of the Vatican. The duel is part of a sports and family celebration at the Pio XI complex on 10 June. Two teams of staff members have the scoop. The episcopal press service SIR published that news.
Pope Francis has warned the Italian bishops to pay close attention when selecting candidates who want to become priests. Men who are supposedly homosexual must be rejected. The Vatican Insider, part of the La Stampa newspaper, reported this on Thursday.
Paul Franciscus warns that financial markets are exploding. The financial derivatives in which more and more money is invested are a ticking time bomb. If that goes off, the whole society will suffer.
The Australian Cardinal George Pell, the former treasurer of the Vatican, must stand trial for child abuse. That is what the court in Melbourne determined on Tuesday.
Pope Francis has received three victims of abuse within the church in Chile at the Vatican. It involved three men who were abused with others by the Chilean minister and teacher of priests Fernando Karadima.
The police arrested a former diplomat from the Vatican who had worked at the embassy in the United States.
The Vatican has sent out the archbishop of Agana on the island of Guam. He was found guilty of abuse of minors by a court of the Vatican on Friday.
In the abusive scandal around the Chilean bishop Juan Barros, Charles Scicluna, the Vatican's envoy, heard the first testimony of an abuse victim.
Pope Paul VI will be declared holy this year, according to Pope Francis.
Pope Francis has called officials at the Vatican and bishops around the world to lead a simple life after retirement and to abandon the desire for power.
The former Pope Benedict suffers from a disease of the nervous system, which means he increasingly has to use a wheelchair. That is what his brother Georg Ratzinger told the German magazine Neue Post.
Turkish president Erdogan visits Pope Francis on Monday. The Turkish leader stepped out of a car on a deserted St. Peter's Square. Surrounding streets were closed for safety reasons.
Pope Francis sends a confidant to Chile to get an explanation of the behavior of Juan Barros, the bishop of Osorno. This is accused of having protected a pedophile priest who has taken care of minors. The Pope recently received considerable criticism during his visit to the South American country about his handling of that case of sexual abuse.
In the Vatican there will be an exhibition next year about the American pop artist Andy Warhol, reports The Art Newspaper. The museums of the Vatican would be in full discussion with the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the birthplace of the artist.
Pope Francis has married two lovers during a flight between two Chilean cities. They asked the church prince for his blessing, on which Francis proposed to go a step further.
Pope Francis will visit the Turkish president Erdogan for the first time this month. The Holy See announced that the Turkish leader will attend the Audience in Vatican City on February 5th.
On his visit to Chile, Pope Francis regretted the sexual abuse of children by priests in the South American country on Tuesday.
Pope Francis has again shown a big heart. This time the pope has invited the poor, homeless, refugees and some prisoners to the circus.
Pope Francis has sketched a sombre picture of the past year during a service in St. Peter's Basilica. He stated that 2017 is marred by violence, lies and injustice. The church prince called on people to take responsibility for their actions.
The director of the museums in the Vatican is annoyed by the often rude behavior of visitors. 'People stick chewing gum under wooden benches from the seventeenth century,' says director and art historian Barbara Jatta. 'The cleaners find everything every day, for example half-empty water bottles. Such a cultureless behavior, you wonder how it is possible. '
An activist with bare torso has tried to steal the baby Jesus from a large nativity scene on St. Peter's Square. The police could prevent the woman from actually taking the picture.
Pope Francis has argued in his Christmas message for a two-state solution to put an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. The church prince expressed from the balcony of Saint Peter's Basilica the hope that the parties could settle their disputes peacefully.
The Christmas tree in the square Piazza Venezia in the center of Rome does not threaten to win Christmas.
Pope Francis has met with the Myanmar army leader Min Aung Hlaing. The men talked for a quarter of an hour in a cathedral in Yangon and exchanged gifts.
With his arrival in Myanmar on Monday, the first visit of a Catholic church leader to the Southeast Asian country begins for Pope Francis. The highlight is a meeting between the Argentinian and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and de facto Head of Government of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi.
General Ratko Mladic still feels like a natural winner and savior. He was not present at the notorious massacres around Srebrenica in July 1995 and, in his own words, he did not give a commission. He states that he did what he had to do as a commander in the fight against the enemy, who had attacked surrounding Serbian villages from the UN enclave.
Pope Franciscus, known for his modest intrusion, has rejected an overdone gift from Italian sports car manufacturer Lamborghini. According to the Vatican, the leader of the Catholic Church received a special production of the Hurucan model on Wednesday.
Pope Franciscus is banning the sale of cigarettes in Vatican City. The Holy See does not want to cooperate anymore in a practice that is clearly detrimental to human health, said a BBC spokesperson.
Pope John Paul I, who ruled only 33 days until his sudden death in 1978, came one step closer to a holy declaration. That is what the Vatican says.
