The Vatican on today strongly denied accusations by some critics in Argentina that Pope Francis stayed silent during systematic human rights a(...)

It has happened. People around here have been talking about it for years and years but it has finally happened. The cardinals of the Cath(...)

The talking is over, it is now time to vote. The Cardinals this morning held their tenth and last “Congregazione Generale” prior to going into (...)

Federico Lombardi, the soft-spoken papal spokesman whose face has become familiar to millions of TV viewers, is about to make a statemen(...)

Thick black smoke billowed into the night sky from the Sistine Chapel's chimney tonight, signalling an inconclusive first vote in the conclave (...)

The 90 staff who will assist at the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI are being sworn in at the the Vatican. These technical(...)

“Surely they’ve got better tables than that in the Vatican?” said one US colleague when we got into the Sistine Chapel for a pre-conclave sneak(...)