The Vatican has given its blessing to a document suggesting that those with same-sex attraction can pursue the priesthood in Italy ...

Pope Francis goes through the Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Dec. 24, 2024. (Credit: Alberto Pizzoli/AP.) Listen In a Sunday television interview, Pope Francis emphasized ...

As the Jubilee year kicks off in Rome, more than half a million visitors have flocked to the Vatican to walk through the Holy ...

A new document by the Italian bishops’ conference states that being openly gay no longer bars candidates from discerning the ...

Faithful walk through the Holy Door of St.Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024, after it was opened by Pope Francis on Christmas Eve, marking the start of the Catholic 2025 ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pilgrims lined up early Wednesday to walk through the great Holy Door at the entrance of St. Peter’s Basilica, as Christmas marked the start of the 2025 Holy Year ...

On Tuesday the Vatican announced that after just two weeks since Pope Francis inaugurated the Jubilee of Hope on Christmas Eve, over half a million pilgrims have already come to participate in the ...

A man stops in prayer as he walks through the Holy Door of St.Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024, after it was opened by Pope Francis on Christmas Eve marking the start of ...

(photo: AIGAV pool) Courtney Mares/CNA Vatican January 5, 2025 American Cardinal James Harvey opened the Holy Door at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, completing the opening ...