In a widely expected yet still dramatic move, the Vatican announced Tuesday that Pope Francis has approved the removal of ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick from the clerical state, colloquially known as...

Italian Lucetta Scaraffia is a bit of a troublemaker in the Vatican these days. She discusses women in the Church.

Andrea Tornielli, the Vatican's new editorial director, says the pope's summit on clerical sexual abuse is not a meeting of experts or technicians, but of pastors.

Even if Christians struggle to recognize him with his "torn clothes (and) dirty feet," Jesus is present in the migrants and refugees who seek safety and a dignified life in a new land, Pope...

An Italian clerical sexual abuse survivor gained access to the Vatican after chaining himself to its entrance.