Gloria Branciani, one of the first women who accused Rev. Marko Rupnik of both sexual and spiritual abuse, demanded transparency from the Vatican in a press conference on Wednesday.

Five years after Pope Francis convened an unprecedented summit on sex abuse, the Catholic Church’s in-house legal system and pastoral response to victims has proven still incapable of dealing with the problem.

The Vatican has been trying for years to debunk the idea that its vaunted secret archives are all that secret. But a certain aura of myth and mystery has persisted — until now.

Mauro Pallotta, the Italian graffiti artist known as Maupal, has designed cartoon-like images of Pope Francis around the Vatican for a decade. On Thursday, he sat the podium at the Vatican news conference.

After failing to administer the lethal injection to Kenneth Eugene Smith in 2022, the state of Alabama is facing pushback from advocates affiliated with the Rome based Sant’Egidio on its decision to instead use nitrogen hypoxia, the first execution of its kind in the U.S.

Verdicts are expected Saturday for a cardinal and nine other defendants in the most complicated financial trial in the Vatican’s modern history.

Pope Francis has decided to punish one of his highest-ranking critics, Cardinal Raymond Burke, by revoking his right to a subsidized Vatican apartment and salary.

Pope Francis’ welcoming of transgender Catholics has transformed a community of trans women who have found hope through friendship with Francis.

The announcement marked a major turnaround for the Holy See and followed an outcry among victims and their advocates over the handling of the case of the Rev. Marko Ivan Rupnik.

Two Vatican trials are coming to a head this week and both underscore Pope Francis’ power as an absolute monarch and the legal, financial and reputational problems that can arise when he wields it.