Associated Press

German police and prosecutors searched Catholic Church properties on June 27 in connection with a probe of the archbishop of Cologne in western Germany over perjury allegations, authorities said.

Cabrini University has announced that it will close at the end of the 2023-24 school year, with Villanova University assuming ownership of the nearby land in the Philadelphia suburbs where the fellow Roman Catholic university is located.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva offered June 22 to help try to gain the release of a Roman Catholic bishop imprisoned in Nicaragua.

Exactly 40 years after the teenage daughter of a Vatican employee disappeared, the Vatican said June 22 that new leads "worthy of further investigation" had surfaced hopes of finally getting to the bottom of one of the Holy See’s enduring mysteries.

Pope Francis said June 22 he was short of breath and still feeling the effects of anesthesia from abdominal surgery two weeks ago.

A cross bequeathed by the late Pope Benedict XVI to a parish in his German home region of Bavaria has been stolen from the church where it was exhibited, police said June 20.

The head of a religious art and culture center founded by a disgraced Jesuit priest came to his defense June 17 after he was expelled from the Jesuit religious order following allegations of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse against adult women.

After weeks of controversy, LA Dodgers honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence during their Pride Night, while Catholics for Catholics protested.

Pope Francis was discharged from the Rome hospital where he had abdominal surgery nine days earlier to repair a hernia and remove painful scarring, with his surgeon saying the pontiff is now "better than before" the hospitalization.

Pope Francis visited the children's cancer ward of Rome's Gemelli hospital on the eve of his expected discharge following abdominal surgery, the Vatican said June 15.

Pope Francis’ Jesuit religious order said Thursday it has expelled a prominent Slovenian priest from the congregation following allegations of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuses against adult women.

A court on June 13 ordered a German diocese to pay 300,000 euros ($323,000) in compensation to a former altar boy who was repeatedly abused by a Catholic priest in the 1970s, a ruling that a victims' association said was the first of its kind in Germany.

Pope Francis was "progressively improving" and sitting in an armchair working June 9, following surgery to remove intestinal scar tissue and repair a hernia in his abdominal wall, the Vatican said.

A state school board in Oklahoma voted June 5 to approve what would be the first publicly funded religious school in the nation, despite a warning from the state's attorney general that the decision was unconstitutional.

Pope Francis briefly went to Rome's main hospital on June 6 for tests and returned to the Vatican, two months after he was hospitalized with an acute case of bronchitis.

The head of St. Peter’s Basilica performed a special rite June 3 after a man stripped naked and hopped on the main altar with the words "Save children of Ukraina" written on his back.

If spirituality isn't driving the Catholic Church's missionary efforts, there is a risk of corruption, Pope Francis told the Vatican’s missionary fundraisers.

The Vatican is seeking clarity after the former director of its U.S. missionary fundraising office oversaw the transfer of at least $17 million of its endowment and donations into a new nonprofit and private equity fund that he created and currently manages. Fr. Andrew Small, the interim head of Pope Francis' clergy abuse commission, oversaw the transactions in his former role as national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States.

The archbishop of Chicago urged the Illinois attorney general on May 25 to provide information about newly uncovered cases of clergy sexual abuse that were included in a statewide investigative report, saying he would gladly add the names on his list of credibly accused priests if the claims were substantiated.

Illinois' attorney general has ended a five-year investigation into sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy in the state, releasing a nearly 700-page report that revealed the problem was far worse than the church acknowledged in 2018 at the start of the state's review.