Federico Lombardi

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican's chief spokesman cautioned that there is nothing "revolutionary" in the pope's saying that condom use can be an act of…

Holocaust survivors from the former Yugoslavia accused the Vatican of helping allies of Nazi Germany launder their stolen valuables, and have asked…

This past Saturday, a synod of bishops in Rome tossed the theological equivalent of a hand grenade, threatening to blow up decades of efforts to…

The Simon Wiesenthal Center urged Pope Benedict XVI on Monday to immediately denounce a statement by Melkite Catholic Archbishop Cyril Salim Bustros…

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Tuesday urged Iraq not to carry out the death sentence meted out to former Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz and says…

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican reported Saturday that Pope Benedict XVI received a letter from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Vatican did…

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican is raising the possibility of a diplomatic effort to try to spare the life of an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned for…

Bishop Kurt Koch of Switzerland will soon be appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to head the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Christian Unity – the office…

LOS ANGELES — The future Pope Benedict XVI resisted pleas to defrock a US priest with a record of sexually molesting children, citing concerns…

DUBLIN — It often starts as a voice in the wilderness, but can swell into an entire nation's demand for truth. From Ireland to Germany, Europe's many…

Jews have lived in the backyard of the popes for over 2,000 years, including more than 300 years (1555 to 1870) behind the ghetto's locked gates, as…

Welfare and Social Affairs Minister Isaac Herzog met Saturday evening with senior leaders of the Catholic Church in Israel and asked that the…

Welfare and Social Affairs Minister Isaac Herzog met Saturday evening with senior leaders of the Catholic Church in Israel and asked that the…

The Vatican will review security procedures after a woman jumped a barrier and rushed at Pope Benedict XVI for the second time in two years, this…

Pope Benedict XVI on Monday described a visit to Israel's Holocaust memorial as a disturbing encounter with hatred, days after his decision to move…

A Swedish TV program to be aired Wednesday claims that top Vatican officials knew that an ultraconservative British bishop was a Holocaust-denier…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday appealed to Pope Benedict XVI "to make his voice heard" and use his moral authority to condemn the…

The Vatican was "surprised" at negative reaction in Israel to words spoken by Pope Benedict XVI at Yad Vashem on Monday, Holy See spokesman Rev.…

Pope Benedict XVI was forced to join the Hitler Youth as a teenage seminary student, but was ideologically opposed to the movement, Rev. Federico…

Going against comments previously made by Pope Benedict XVI himself, a Vatican spokesman on Tuesday was quoted as saying that the pontiff was never a…