The Holy See closed the 2024 fiscal year with a surplus of 1.6 million euros ($1.86 million), according to the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy.

Pope Leo XIV welcomes new ambassadors to the Vatican during an audience in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace Dec. 6, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) Pope Leo XIV welcomes new ambassadors to ...

Pope Leo XIV has taken his biggest step yet to correct one of Pope Francis’ more problematic financial moves, canceling a ...

As America's Pope Leo XIV begins his reign at the head of the world's smallest country, this Catholic sovereign city-state's financial and economic challenges wait to be addressed. It may take more ...

Because the Vatican has published comparatively little over the centuries about its finances and investments, most people don't know how it makes money as a sovereign city-state with its own economy.

A Vatican commission has yet to take a firm decision on whether women could become deacons, but the answer for now remains no ...

Italy agreed July 31 to a Vatican plan to turn a 430-hectare (1,000-acre) field north of Rome, once the source of controversy between the two, into a vast solar farm that the Holy See hopes will ...

ROME — Vatican police have detained a former employee on charges of attempted extortion after he allegedly tried to sell a 17th-century gilded manuscript describing Bernini’s designs for the altar ...

Vatican City may be small, but it's steeped in religious history. It has a long history of being strongly linked with Christianity as the site of Saint Peter's tomb as well as being filled with famous ...

It has not yet been decided who will celebrate the Easter Vigil Mass on Saturday evening and the Easter Sunday Mass, Holy See spokesperson Matteo Bruni said Tuesday. Pope Francis kisses the foot of ...

For Holy Week, Pope Francis has delegated three cardinals to celebrate the Vatican’s Holy Thursday and Good Friday liturgies as the state of the pontiff’s health continues to steadily improve, the ...