Vatican to host LGBTQ pilgrimage during 2025 Catholic Jubilee events

The Vatican’s decision to host an LGBTQ pilgrimage during the 2025 Catholic Jubilee has sparked global interest and renewed debate over the Church’s evolving relationship with sexual minorities. More than 1,000 participants from across 30...

Vatican Includes LGBTQ Pilgrimage and Rainbow Crucifix in 2025 Jubilee Celebrations

The Vatican is preparing to host a series of events for the LGBTQ community in Rome next week, including a Mass, prayer vigils and a procession to St. Peter’s Basilica. But the nature of these events raises a troubling question: is Pope Leo...

Andrea Bocelli, Pharrell Williams to direct Vatican concert for human fraternity

Vatican City, Aug 29, 2025 / 11:51 am Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and American songwriter Pharrell Williams will direct a concert featuring musicians John Legend, Teddy Swims, Jelly Roll, Karol G, BamBam, and Angélique Kidjo in St. Peter’s Square...

Sistine Chapel Choir quintet brings taste of the Vatican to Plymouth on Thursday

Metro Detroiters can get a taste of the Vatican next week when a contingent from the pope’s Sistine Chapel Choir performs at Saint John’s Resort in Plymouth. “The Voice of Beauty and the Hand of Grace” will feature a quintet from the historic...

President leaves for Vatican City 

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Saltillo bishop joins Vatican Dicastery for the Clergy

Concert at the Vatican with Pharrell Williams and John Legend

It's official: Pharrell Williams and John Legend will sing at the Vatican to close the Third World Conference on Human Fraternity. It is a conference that will bring together Nobel laureates, artists, and scholars from around the world and was...

Fact Check: Is Vatican Hosting LGBTQ+ Rainbow Cross Event?

Is the Vatican hosting an LGBTQ+ event featuring an LGBTQ+ rainbow cross? Here is our fact check of the viral claims. Claim : Vatican Is Hosting LGBTQ+ Rainbow Cross Event Many people (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) are claiming or suggesting that the Vatican...

Vatican Secretary of State reiterates Holy See’s position on total invasion of Gaza

(ZENIT News / Roma, 08.28.2025).- During a Mass honoring Saint Monica at the Basilica of Saint Augustine, Cardinal Pietro Parolin once again voiced the Holy See’s concern over the worsening crisis in Gaza. The Vatican Secretary of State recalled...

Vatican welcomes Ambassador Brian Burch and his family

The Vatican welcomed Ambassador to the Holy See Brian Burch, his wife Sarah, and five of their nine children to Rome Aug. 28. Burch and his family will reside at the Vatican ambassador embassy. President Donald Trump nominated Burch, co-founder of...

Karol G to Perform in the Vatican – Here’s How to Watch

Karol G is joining a star-studded line-up of artists that will put on a free concert in Vatican City. The Colombian superstar recently revealed that she will soon perform in St. Peter’s Square alongside names like Andrea Bocelli, Pharrell...

Vatican in contact with USA for Gaza solution

Although there are possible solutions, Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin said, there are many selfish interests getting in the way of peace. Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin lamented the political and economic interests of power...

Pope Leo XIV Appoints South Africa’s Cardinal Brislin to Vatican Dicastery for the Clergy

in South Africa following his transfer from the Catholic Archdiocese of Cape Town in October 2024 Cardinal Brislin’s Coat-of-Arms expresses his motto Veritas in Caritate – truth in love, taken from Ephesians 4:15. The center is the empty cross of...

Rep. Tom Suozzi meets with Pope Leo XIV at Vatican

Rep. Tom Suozzi met with Pope Leo XIV during a gathering of the International Catholic Legislators Network. Provided by Tom Suozzi U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi joined an international delegation of Catholic lawmakers at the Vatican on Saturday, Aug. 23,...

Vatican official warns of the hidden costs of AI

Bishop Tighe said AI and the social issues that it gives rise to will be a priority for Pope Leo XIV (Bigstock) A top official at the Vatican’s Dicastery for Culture and Education is urging caution on artificial intelligence, warning that its...

Vatican official warns of the hidden costs of artificial intelligence

DUBLIN — Bishop Paul Tighe, a top official at the Vatican’s Dicastery for Culture and Education, is urging caution on artificial intelligence — warning that its hidden environmental costs, impact on jobs and broader social risks can’t be...

Pope Leo XIV Welcomes Kazakh Pilgrims in Vatican Ahead of Congress of World and Traditional Religions 

ALMATY – Pope Leo XIV greeted a group of thirty Kazakh pilgrims from the Karaganda diocese during the Sunday Angelus prayer on Aug. 24 at St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican. Photo credit: Vatican News The pilgrims, who traveled to Italy from Aug....

VATICAN Confidential: How Pope Leo is debugging Artificial Intelligence

Hello. I’m Seán-Patrick Lovett. I’d like to open this Vatican Confidential with a quote. See if you can guess who said this: “A small number of very rich men have laid upon the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself”,...

Disney+, Hulu and ABC News Live to Stream Historic Vatican City

A historic concert from Vatican City, co-directed by Pharrell Williams and Maestro Andrea Bocelli, will stream live exclusively on Disney+, Hulu, and ABC News Live. What’s Happening: This monumental cultural and spiritual event in the heart of...

Vatican official warns of AI’s hidden costs to environment, work and society

Bishop Paul Tighe, a top official at the Vatican’s Dicastery for Culture and Education, poses while speaking to OSV News following his address, “Theology and Mission in an Age of Artificial Intelligence” to the Congress of the European Society for...