Christianity

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Conservatives on Friday defended former Pope Benedict against charges of mishandling sexual abuse...

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican has given space on its website to a Catholic group that...

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has congratulated the reporter who caught him visiting old friends who...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The Archbishop of Munich, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, apologised on Thursday to the victims of historic sexual abuse...

(Repeats, adds dropped word in headline) By Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) -Former Pope Benedict XVI failed to take action against...

By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) - Former Pope Benedict XVI denied that he was given information about child abuse in...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The second and third ranking Vatican officials under Pope Francis have tested positive for COVID-19, the...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Catholic Church is to set up local commissions to hear complaints from victims of abuse after...

By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis, a lover of classical music, slipped out of the Vatican on Tuesday...

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Wednesday urged governments to combat child labour, saying it was...

(Edits headline, fixes typo) By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) -Italian Catholic and Jewish leaders on Tuesday condemned as outrageous an...

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Monday warned against attempts to cancel culture, decrying "one-track thinking"...

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Monday condemned "baseless" ideological misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, backing national...

By Stephen Farrell JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem has accused radical Israeli groups of threatening the...

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis took an apparent dig at conservatives resisting change in the Roman...

BELFAST (Reuters) - A complaint of discrimination previously dismissed by Britain's highest court against a bakery that refused to make...

By Michael Gore and Susana Vera MADRID (Reuters) - Flanked by dancers and live camels the Three Wise Men paraded...

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine authorities have cancelled an annual procession, which normally draws millions of Catholic devotees accompanying a black...

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis used his New Year's message on Saturday to issue a clarion call...

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis ended the year by attending a vespers service on Friday where...