Cardinals created by Pope John Paul II

People need to rediscover and recommit to the vision of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to work nonviolently for equality for all, Pope Francis said.

In one day, the Catholic Church on two continents lost two leaders to COVID-19. 

Australia's financial crime watchdog agency said it over-estimated by the equivalent of more than U.S. $1.5 billion the amount of money transferred from the Vatican to Australia between 2014 and 2020.

The Vatican has never been a democracy, but the incongruity of a government that is a moral authority on the global stage and yet an absolute monarchy is becoming increasingly evident. 

Swiss Cardinal Henri Schwery, whose diocese was home to Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre's priestly society, died Jan. 7 at the age of 88.

People inside and outside the church are calling on authorities to get to the bottom of mystery funds transferred from the Vatican to Australia.

Pope Francis has formally stripped the Vatican secretariat of state of its financial assets and real estate holdings following its bungled management of hundreds of millions of euros.

Signs of the Times: Pope Francis' concern with capitalism and racism seems pointed at the American manifestations of these ills.