In fact, the Wikimedia Foundation announced Dec. 2 that "Deaths in 2025" -- an entry that includes Pope Francis -- was their ...

Pope Leo’s updates to the Vatican labor code attempt to streamline a Curia under pressure, from pension woes to a dwindling ...

Discussions over women becoming deacons, who are ordained and can assist with services but cannot celebrate Mass, have ...

As the church commemorates 60 years since the closing of Vatican II, here are seven key issues and documents that serve as ...

Pope Leo's selection had spurred optimism that the Church's stance on female deacons might change. That was not to be the ...

The pope also said that Europe should be involved in security guarantees for Ukraine after meeting with Ukrainian President ...

A Vatican-appointed commission says current church teaching does not allow women to be ordained as Catholic deacons.

In an audience with people who work in the Italian intelligence sector, Pope Leo XIV recalled the importance of conducting ...

But a papal commission examining the question said further study was required, and advised that women should be given other ...

In the evocative new documentary Nuns vs the Vatican, director Lorena Luciano sets out to illuminate the stories of silence, ...

A selection of Inuit artifacts returned by the Vatican is now at the Canadian Museum of History, after First Nations, Inuit ...