VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Weeping Madonnas, bleeding hosts and saintly apparitions will have to be approved by the Vatican’s doctrinal office, according to a new document issued by the same office ...

Francis is a pope of many firsts: the first to use that name, the first from Latin America, the first from the Jesuit ...

Vatican police have detained a former employee on charges of attempted extortion after he allegedly tried to sell a ...

Vatican City – The Vatican's doctrinal office has ... Fernandez said that since examination of alleged religious phenomena took many years, these new rules would help the church reach decisions ...

beyond just founding a religious order or being pope or something like that.” Once the evidence is collected, it’s sent to the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, in the Vatican. A group of ...

Santiago is among the dozens of reported victims who have been waiting for the Vatican to reveal its findings about the ...

(AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Friday overhauled its ... these otherwise inexplicable ...

In the Hebrew Scriptures, God commanded his people to observe a jubilee as a time to restore their relationships with God, ...

A top Vatican cardinal has urged European voters to remember their own migratory roots in showing sympathy to people forced ...

“The Pope never intended to offend or express himself in homophobic terms and he extends his apologies to those who felt offended by the use of a term, reported by others,” the Vatican said in ...

Former U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly is giving up his post as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See and returning to Indiana after ...