Breaking Vatican City News

VATICAN: Vatican officially announced the meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and the Archbishop of Canterbury as ‘Cordial’ on Saturday. The Pope gifted the Archbishop with a pectoral Cross and the Archbishop had a ring that Pope Paul VI had gifted...

Sitting before Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment” in the Sistine Chapel, Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday called on an audience of contemporary artists to embark on “a quest for beauty.” Aiming to revive the age-old ties between the Catholic Church and artists...

Peter's collection of religious and historic artifacts. In addition to the relic inside, the cross itself is an important piece of early Christian art: it's a rare example of an imperial gift and expression of the emperor's Christian faith. Across...

Vatican holds meeting on possibility of life elsewhere in the Universe VATICAN: Vatican observatory run by the Catholic authorities have confirmed a report on the meeting held there to discuss existence of life elsewhere in the Universe other than earth....

Pope Benedict XVI regularly surfs the Internet and makes frequent use of email, the Vatican's 'communications minister' said Thursday. Speaking as a four-day conference on web communications opened at the Vatican, Monsignor Claudio Maria Celli said the German pontiff was...

Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the...

The Vatican warned Roman Catholics this week of the dangers of Halloween and urged parents and church leaders to direct children to more wholesome pursuits. Italian news agency, reported. ''Halloween has an undercurrent of occultism and is absolutely anti-Christian,'' the...

The Vatican and its scientific observatory are organising a celebration at the Vatican City on Friday and Saturday. The event coincides with the International Year of Astronomy, which will close on 9-10 January in the northern Italian city of Padova....

Pope Benedict XVI ended a three-week Vatican meeting on Africa Sunday with a call for peace and reconciliation among all people on the continent, regardless of ethnic and religious differences...Peter's basilica to cap the meeting on the role of the...

Roman Catholic bishops have blasted corruption among politicians in Africa. The region needs "saintly politicians who will clean the continent of corruption," the bishops declared Friday at a meeting about Africa at the Vatican. "Many Catholics in high office have...