Pope Francis leaves after he presided over a mass celebrated by U.S. Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican for the participants into the World Meeting of Families in Rome, ...

ROME – Just as the Italian parliament is gearing up to launch a large-scale investigation of the infamous “Vatican girl” case, Pope Francis has repeated his own desire that the truth surrounding the ...

The chief prosecutor of the Vatican City State court met Tuesday with the brother of Emanuela Orlandi, a teenage girl who went missing from Vatican City nearly 40 years ago. Vatican prosecutor ...

The family of a teenager who went missing in Italy in 1983 called Wednesday on the Vatican to provide more details on the discovery of human remains in one of its properties. p pulse Follow The bones ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The Vatican’s chief prosecutor said Pope Francis has given him free rein to investigate the 1983 disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, a 15-year-old Vatican resident. The case has ...

People want justice, and justice requires truth, trust, devotion and integrity, Pope Francis told members of Italy's High Council of the Judiciary. "Justice must always accompany the search for peace, ...

Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Vatican secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations, addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New ...

Representatives of the Assembly of First Nations perform music outside St. Peter's Square as their delegates meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican March 31, 2022. The pope is holding three meetings to ...

The Vatican's secret archives—85 kilometers of shelves packed with historical documents—have sparked wild rumors for ...