Latest from Vatican City

The Pope is due to visit Ireland this weekend.

No effort to be spared to tackle Catholic Church's abuses, Pope says in letter.

Statement says Pope on victims' side following report on decades of abuse.

Pope Francis is addressing sex abuse in the Catholic Church, but not in Vatican City.

Pope Francis has denounced abortion in no uncertain terms.

Archbishops refuse to break the seal of confession to reveal child abuse.

The special edition sportscar sells for around $309,000.

Pope believes God is happy when he nods off "like a child in the arms of his father".

Carlo Capella allegedly uploaded the child porn to a social networking site at Christmas.

George Pell plans to plead not guilty to multiple charges of historical sex offences.

Pope Francis said to be fuming after priest arrested.

The pope and President Trump will meet at the Vatican later this month.

British physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking has been hospitalised in Rome for checks after not feeling well but his condition

A group of children from a South Taranaki primary school are appealing to the Pope to intervene in an international kidnapping case involving a very special bear.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta will be canonised a Catholic saint on Sunday in Rome, but commemorations in Auckland will involve people of many faiths.

The Vatican's third most senior official admitted that the Roman Catholic Church made "enormous mistakes" in ignoring decades of sexual abuse of children by priests.

Many gay activists are cheering Charamsa's action, heralding him as a Vatican whistleblower.

Jozef Wesolowski, 66, was supposed to appear before a tribunal within the walls of the Vatican to face charges of paying underage boys for sexual acts.

Pope Francis has taken his embrace of homeless people a step further by allowing a tramp to be buried inside the Vatican for the first time in the history of the Holy See.

The cardinals who elected Pope Francis 18 months ago had no inkling that he would turn out to be such a "rock star" pontiff, two "princes of the church" have said.

A group of 26 Italian women who claim to be having affairs with Roman Catholic priests have written a joint letter to the Pope begging him to end the Catholic Church's ban on priests having sex and getting married.

It has been dubbed "the day of the four Popes", an unprecedented occasion in the 2000-year history of the Catholic Church.

He's dropped an F-bomb, sold his Harley and appeared on Rolling Stone magazine. We look at ten of Pope Francis' notable moments in his first 12 months.

A selection of images celebrating the one-year anniversary of Pope Francis' election as Bishop of Rome.

The Vatican is forming its own cricket team, which will be called St Peter's Cricket Club.

Investigators in Rome are combing through the 19,000 accounts held by the Vatican's bank in search of money laundering and other crimes.

The Vatican has asked Brazil for an additional €30 million ($49.5 million) to help cover an expected shortfall in funding for the visit of the Pope to Rio de Janeiro this month.