News Vatican City State: Pope tweaks a law allowing a woman to head the Vatican City State, months after a nun was appointed
Pope Francis shakes hands with Sister Raffaella Petrini, secretary general of the Vatican’s governorship, at the Vatican, on Dec. 23, 2021. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.) Listen ROME — Pope Leo ...
News Vatican City State: Vatican City: How the world's smallest state is governed
The Vatican, the smallest state in the world, possesses a unique and complex legal, administrative, and spiritual structure designed to guarantee the independence of the pope and allow the Church to ...
News Vatican City State: Pope: Christmas creche, tree are signs of hope
“The Nativity scene and the Christmas tree are signs of faith and hope,” he said to all those present. “Let the tenderness of the child Jesus illuminate our lives. Let God’s love, like the branches of ...
News Vatican City State: Vatican to unveil Nativity scene, light up Christmas tree in St. Peter’s Square on Dec. 15
The Governorate of Vatican City State has announced the origins of the fir tree and Nativity scene that will adorn St. Peter’s Square this Christmas.
News Vatican City State: Vatican seeks 'effective solutions' for Frenchman in vegetative state
The Vatican called on Tuesday for "effective solutions" to protect the life of a Frenchman living for years in a vegetative state, hours after a court told doctors to resume his life support. "We hope ...
News Vatican City State: Pope Francis approves new statutes for the Vatican Bank
He has acted with determination and considerable success to clean up the entire operation of the I.O.R., and this has involved the approval of new legislation in the Vatican City State in accordance ...
News Vatican City State: McCarrick's grooming tactics shown in letters to seminarians and abuse victims
Vatican City, Aug 6, 2019 / 08:14 am (CNA ... The results of that review have not, to date, been released. Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said May 29 that the Vatican was still ...
News Vatican City State: Iraqi patriarch to Pope Francis: Chaldean Church is 'a church of martyrs'
Vatican City, Aug 6, 2019 / 08:40 am (CNA ... Aug. 6 marks the fifth anniversary of the day on which the Islamic State took control of Iraq’s Nineveh Plains. In August 2014, the Nineveh Plain was ...
News Vatican City State: Vatican: Bones found at cemetery do not belong to missing woman
The Vatican press office said that the results of a morphological analysis of bones and bone fragments found at an ossuary in a Vatican cemetery concluded that none belonged to Emanuela Orlandi, a young Italian woman who has been missing for more than 30 years.
News Vatican City State: U.S. priest to receive reports of abuse, cover-up at Vatican City State
Vatican City State will have its own reporting system in place before the end of the year for flagging suspected cases of the abuse of minors and vulnerable people and instances of cover-up or negligence in handling such cases, the Vatican said.
News Vatican City State: $28 million owed to people in Lubbock, state comptroller says (are you one of them?)
There is currently over $28 million worth of unclaimed property outstanding for people in Lubbock alone ... and other items during the state’s sales tax holiday on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Aug. ...
News Vatican City State: Vatican issues document on challenges of ‘gender ideology’ to Catholic education
In light of changing definitions of love and sexuality fueled by “gender theory,” the Vatican on Monday released a new document looking into issues such as “third sex,” transgenderism, and polyamory.
News Vatican City State: State shdn't impose thinking on gender - Vatican
A democratic State cannot impose a single current of thinking on gender, the Vatican said in a statement on Monday. Families' freedom on sex education in schools should be guaranteed, it said. © ANSA
News Vatican City State: Records on life of Father Flanagan, founder of Boys Town, presented at Vatican
Vatican City, Jul 23, 2019 / 03:01 am (CNA ... The boys elected their own government to run the community, which became an official village in the state of Nebraska in 1936. Father Flanagan’s work ...
News Vatican City State: Thousands of bones discovered in search for long-missing Vatican teen
The tombs, located in the cemetery of the Teutonic College, adjacent to the Vatican City State, were found to be completely empty of any human remains. Scientists were initially puzzled by this ...
News Vatican City State: The Expert Operations Will Continue in the Campo Santo Teutonico on Saturday, July 27
As indicated in the decree of the Promoter of Justice of Vatican City State, the operations concern ... for the services of the Judiciary Police of the Gendarmerie’s Corps. ...
News Vatican City State: Forensic experts to study ‘thousands of bones’ found in Vatican ossuaries
Alessandro Gisotti, outgoing interim director of the Vatican press office, said the investigation, led by a Vatican-appointed specialist in forensic medicine, was being carried out according to internationally recognized protocols.
News Vatican City State: State Police: Arrest warrant for driver involved in fatal 2018 crash during Hamden police pursuit
(WTNH) — There is now an arrest warrant for the driver involved a chase with Hamden police that ended with a fatal crash ... one giant leap for mankind." VATICAN CITY (AP) — Forensic experts have ...
