Nicole Winfield
Pope meets Vance and greets cheering crowd
Pope Francis has made a brief appearance on Easter Sunday to bless the thousands of people in St Peter’s Square, drawing cheers...
Pope Francis urges priests to avoid ‘clerical hypocrisy’
Pope Francis has urged his priests to avoid “clerical hypocrisy” and treat their flocks with mercy as he delivered a lengthy set...
‘Despicable’: Pope calls for universal ban on surrogacy
Pope Francis has called for a universal ban on what he calls the “despicable” practice of surrogate motherhood. The Pope included the...
Vatican archives reveal Pope Pius XII was told of Holocaust and Nazi extermination camps
Newly discovered correspondence suggests that World War II-era Pope Pius XII had detailed information from a trusted German Jesuit that up to...
Cardinal Pell’s secret memo blasts ‘disaster’ and ‘catastrophe’ of papacy under Pope Francis
Pope Francis will deliver a final send-off for Cardinal George Pell during a funeral Mass on Saturday, the Vatican says, as revelations...
Pope Francis takes aim at child abusers and Vatican corruption
Pope Francis has released his long-awaited reform program of the Holy See bureaucracy that envisages greater decision-making roles for the laity and...
Pope Francis says getting vaccinated a ‘moral obligation’
Pope Francis has suggested that getting vaccinated against the coronavirus is a “moral obligation” and denounced how people had been swayed by...
Pope Francis demands humility from clergy in Christmas message
Pope Francis has urged Vatican cardinals, bishops and bureaucrats to embrace humility this Christmas, saying their pride, self-interest and the “glitter of...
Vatican trial opens into financial scandal
Vatican prosecutors have alleged a jaw-dropping series of scandals in the biggest criminal trial in the Vatican’s modern history, which is set...
Judge blames technician for Italian cable car crash
The three suspects in Italy’s deadly cable car crash have been allowed to leave prison after a judge said most of the...