VATICAN CITY: Vatican prosecutors on Tuesday formally questioned the pope's butler as the investigation into the leaks of papal documents moved into a new...
VATICAN CITY: One of the Vatican’s biggest scandals in decades widened Monday with the pope’s butler – arrested for allegedly having...
ROME: They twirled, they sniffed, they slurped, they chewed. The dozen housewives who gathered in a Rome hotel on a recent afternoon took their work terribly...
VATICAN CITY: The Vatican's inquisition into the source of leaked documents has yielded its first target with the arrest of the pope's butler, but the...
VATICAN CITY: The Legion of Christ religious order was hit Tuesday by its second scandal in a week after its most well-known priest - a prominent author,...
ROME: Forensic police swarmed the crypt of a Roman basilica on Monday to exhume the body of a reputed mobster as part of an investigation into one of the...
ROME: Italian cruise line Costa Crociere SpA unveiled new safety measures Saturday following the deadly grounding of its ship off Tuscany, saying it will now...
HAVANA: Pope Benedict XVI wraps up his visit to Cuba on Wednesday with an open-air Mass in the shrine of the Cuban revolution, hoping to revive the Catholic...
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE: Pope Benedict XVI denounced the drug-fueled violence wracking Mexico and urged Cubans to discuss new models for replacing Marxism as...
VATICAN CITY: The Vatican’s No. 2 has dismissed suggestions that Cuba’s Communist government could exploit Pope Benedict’s upcoming trip as...
ROME: Renato Dulbecco, who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in medicine for his seminal research on the interaction between tumors and cells, has died in...
VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI is bringing 22 new Catholic churchmen into the elite club of cardinals who will elect his successor amid signs the 84-year-old...
ROME: Celebrated American painter Cy Twombly, whose large-scale paintings featuring scribbles, graffiti and references to ancient empires fetched millions at...
VATICAN CITY: The Vatican, whose communications problems are no secret, is taking a leap into the world of new media with the launch next week of a news...
ROME: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told a visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exactly what he wanted to hear Monday, rejecting...
VATICAN CITY: The Vatican told bishops around the world Monday that it is important to cooperate with police in reporting priests who rape and molest children...
ROME: Italy and France asked the EU Tuesday to revise the Schengen border treaty that permits passport-free travel through Europe to take into account...