Vatican City News

Midnight Mass at the Vatican will start two hours earlier this year to give Pope Benedict XVI "time to rest" officials said yesterday, prompting fears over his health. It is the first time the celebration has begun at any time...

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...

Pope Benedict XVI canonized five new saints on Sunday, including a 19th century priest who worked with leprosy patients on an isolated Hawaiian island, praising them as models of perfection for sacrificing themselves for others...Peter's Basilica was Hawaii resident Audrey...

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...

He said he hoped that with coordinated efforts, the HIV virus can be successfully cured.

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...

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...

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...

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....