Strong departments of justice and finance are essential if the Vatican is going to operate effectively and efficiently ...

“Popes come and go, the Curia remains,” Pope Leo XIV said this morning as he greeted some 5,000 managers and employees of the Roman Curia, the Governorate of the Vatican City State and the Vicariate ...

Not long after I arrived in town as the National Catholic Reporter's Vatican correspondent, I attended a farewell dinner for a Roman Curia official who had served here for almost a decade. It was the ...

The Vatican conclave will continue on Thursday with as many as four more rounds of voting. A two-thirds majority of the 133 cardinals is required to select a new leader for the world’s 1.4 billion ...

The Vatican exists as a country because the Catholic Church is powerful enough that Italy could not erase it without triggering global backlash. After Italy conquered Rome in 1870, the Popes refused ...

The intricate system allegedly operated through electronic oscillography, analyzing sound waves with unprecedented precision and converting them back into their original forms. Light could be ...

Pope Leo XIV sits with Elise Allen, senior correspondent at Crux, for an interview at the pope’s residence inside the Vatican’s Palazzo Sant’Uffizio July 30, 2025. Credit: CNS photo/courtesy Crux Pope ...