"It is of the utmost importance that bodies responsible for vigilance are separated from those that are being overseen."

 

  Authorities have arrested a number of people suspected of planning assaults

  Influential German cardinal Walter Kasper has predicted that the exhortation will mark a "turning of the page" for the Church.

  "There is resistance and there are difficulties, but the path to follow has become clearer."

The Vatican's controversial trial of journalists and whistleblowers was put on hold Monday as new claims about sex, lies and...

 

 

  "I am able to confirm that the pope is in good health," chief spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said

 

 

 

  The Catholic Church's commissioner for the protection of children has described the Vatican's finance chief as having an...

  Pope Francis' hard-hitting criticisms of  globalisation and inequality long ago set him out as a leader unafraid of mixing...