The Vatican’s third highest ranking official has been charged with a series of sex offences in Australia after a two year investigation.
Jonathan Rugman
The truth about the killings of Armenians, condemned as genocide by Pope Francis, exposes a fragility at the heart of modern Turkey, dating back to the era of Ataturk, the country’s founder.
In a review of its teachings on the family and sexuality, Catholic bishops say gay people have “gifts and qualities to offer”. A sign the church is adopting a more welcoming attitude to homosexuality?
Pope Francis, on a five-day tour of South Korea, celebrates a huge open-air mass in the capital Seoul. He also visited a hilltop centre for the sick, disabled and homeless in the town of Kkottongnae.
Meriam Ibrahi, who was sentenced to death in Sudan for renouncing Islam, has met Pope Francis at the Vatican. Meriam’s conviction was quashed after Sudan came under intense international pressure.
A scathing UN report calls on the Vatican to “immediately remove” all clergy known or suspected of child abuse, and says the church put its reputation before the protection of children.
Pope Francis says the internet is a “gift from God” – but who else has claimed rights to the world wide web? And how much of it is true?
Pope Francis has created his first batch of cardinals, naming 19 men from around the world who will lead the Roman Catholic church.
Jonathan Rugman
If the Vatican under Pope Francis can recommit itself to helping the poor, while becoming more forgiving, then the Catholic church will have been rescued by a revolutionary with a message of simplicity and inclusivity.
Pope Francis says gay people should not be marginalised but integrated into society, although the Catholic church still considers homosexual acts sinful.
A new papal decree states that believers who follow this month’s Rio World Youth Day online could be entitled to an “indulgence”, a medieval spiritual incentive that reduces your time in purgatory.
A Vatican official is arrested in an alleged plot to bring 20 million euros into Italy from Switzerland aboard an Italian government plane.
Pope Francis unveils a commission of inquiry to examine the activities of the troubled Vatican bank in the wake of allegations of a new money-laundering scandal.
Cardinal Keith Patrick O’Brien, who resigned as head of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland after admitting sexual misconduct, is heading to the Vatican for months of “prayer and penance”.
Pope Francis tours St Peter’s Square at daybreak to wave at crowds and bless pilgrims ahead of his inauguration mass at the Vatican, attended by up to 200,000 people.