The stunned crowd could only balk as the man was quickly torn away from the altar by “plainclothes police officers” stationed ...

A man urinated on the Altar of Confession during morning Mass in front of hundreds of people at St Peter’s Basilica in ...

A man urinated on the Vatican ’s holiest altar in front of hundreds of horrified worshippers, according to local reports.

The debate surrounding the traditional Latin Mass within the Catholic Church has intensified significantly in the early days of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate. It follows the alleged leak of Vatican ...

FILE - Nuns stand next to copies of L'Osservatore Romano newspaper with headlines in Latin of Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, Friday, May 9, 2025, a day after he was elected as the first North American ...

A Vatican spokesman has played down the significance of recently leaked Vatican documents that appear to cast doubt on Pope Francis’ rationale for restricting the Latin Mass, calling the documents ...

Leaked documents seemingly undermining Pope Francis' stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass provided an incomplete reconstruction of the evidence that informed his 2021 decision to crack ...

Pope Francis' Christmas Eve Mass will start two hours earlier, the Vatican said on Thursday, allowing even the limited number of people who can attend to get home by a 10 p.m. Italian curfew to ...

The actor and former governor of California is among 1,000 thought leaders and activists who will gather for a ...

The debate surrounding the traditional Latin Mass within the Catholic Church has intensified significantly in the early days of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate. It follows the alleged leak of Vatican ...