An investigation has been handed over the Vatican after a possible miracle took place at a church in Connecticut, US, during Holy Communion. On March 5, the Rev. Joseph Crowley, pastor of St. Thomas Church in Thomaston reported that, during Holy Communion,
The Vatican is formally recognizing 21 Coptic Orthodox workers who were beheaded by Islamic militants in Libya as martyrs with their own feast day, in a significant new ecumenical gesture aimed at forging unity between Catholic and Orthodox churches. Pope Francis announced
Pope Francis met with a high-ranking leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, raising questions on the status of a secret “mission” in Ukraine. The pontiff greeted Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk at the Vatican on Wednesday following his weekly general audience
The Vatican on Wednesday inaugurated a new arts and crafts academy inside St. Peter’s Basilica, which revives a centuries-old apprentice system that trained stonemasons, carpenters and artisans to care for the treasures in the world’s biggest Catholic church. CLIMATE ACTIVISTS FACE VATICAN
The Vatican plans to inspect hundreds of statues of St Mary around the world captured weeping blood as part of a push to investigate the world’s “mystical phenomena”. Leaders of the Pontifical Mariana International Academy (PAMI), a specialist observatory that claims to
The archbishop who assisted Pope Benedict XVI is attempting to handle the late pontiff’s estate, but has found more heirs than he was expecting. Archbishop Georg Gänswein told Italian news outlets Sunday that he was surprised to find he had five individuals
A group of climate protestors who damaged the base of an ancient statue in the Vatican museums are now being tried in Vatican City court. In August 2022, Guido Viero and Ester Goffi affixed their hands with superglue to the base of
The Vatican has ordered a prominent French priest who advised the Holy See for years on matters of sex and homosexuality to cease his psychotherapy practice following allegations he sexually abused men in his therapeutic care. But the Vatican didn’t defrock or
The Vatican judiciary announced Monday that it will reopen the missing person cold case of a 15-year-old girl who disappeared in 1983 and is the subject of a recent Netflix docuseries. Pope Francis’s newly appointed head prosecutor, Alessandro Diddi, will lead the
The Vatican said Monday it has reopened the investigation into the 1983 disappearance of the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee, months after a new Netflix documentary purported to shed new light on the case and weeks after her family asked the