Cardinal Angelo Amato, the former prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints who oversaw numerous significant canonizations including that of Mother Teresa, died Dec. 31.

Pope Francis is pictured here with Bishop Edward Scharfenberger of Albany, New York, and several members of the Catholic Land Movement during a recent visit to the Vatican. Credit: Photo courtesy ...

Pope Francis looks upon a nativity set in the Vatican Audience Hall in which the baby Jesus rests upon a Palestinian keffiyeh Dec. 7, 2024. (Credit: AP/Andrew Medichini.) Listen ROME – At year ...

In lesser hands, Conclave might have been a political thriller that happens to take place at the Vatican, similar to how some horror movies use exorcism as a device without addressing the ...

(RNS) — The appearance of a keffiyeh on a Palestinian-made nativity scene at the Vatican caused a stir. So did its sudden disappearance. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In the moments before Pope Francis ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis presided over his weekly general audience Wednesday alongside a Palestinian-crafted Nativity scene that was missing its eyebrow-raising signature element: a ...

The wooden Nativity scene in the Vatican’s main audience hall had generated headlines when it was unveiled Dec. 7 because of the presence of the keffiyeh, the black-and-white checkered headscarf ...

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(Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – In the wake of global controversy over a Nativity scene displayed at the Vatican showing the infant Jesus resting upon a Palestinian keffiyeh, widely seen ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- An Italian association for LGBTQ+ Christians, their parents and the priests and religious who minister with them is among the many groups registered to make a pilgrimage ...

Vatican's Keffiyeh Nativity Scene Raises Eyebrows and Then Disappears — at Least Until Christmas Eve VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis presided over his weekly general audience Wednesday ...

Pope Francis is preparing to unbrick and open five ‘sacred portals’ symbolising the doorway to salvation. The doors are only opened once every 25 years, so may well be a little rusty.