Pope Francis added an Italian teenager to the list of people he will formally recognize as saints Oct. 14 during the month-long meeting of the world Synod of Bishops on young people.

A formal call for testimony has been issued, the first step of an investigation into the possible sainthood of Chiara Corbella Petrillo, a young Italian mother who died in 2012.

A team of Vatican restorers are completing the final phase of a 20-year effort to repair the sanctuary of the Holy Stairs and clean its 18,300 square feet of frescoes.

One year after their blockbuster article describing an "ecumenism of hate" between U.S. conservative Catholics and evangelicals, Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro and Presbyterian pastor...

The Vatican's former top advisor on canon law has made a public call to insert legal obligations for the care of creation into the Church’s universal canon law -  making it a legal duty for...