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Ongoing Angelus coverage related to Vatican in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and beyond.

Pope Urban VIII opened the doors of the basilica to Bernini when he was only 25 years old. (Victoria Cardiel/EWTN News)

A pope’s magnificent bet on a young Bernini

Victoria Cardiel|Mar 5, 2026|5 Min Read

A woman draped in a Venezuelan flag prays at the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer in Rome Jan. 4, 2026, following a U.S. strike on Venezuela where President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were captured the previous day. (OSV News photo/Matteo Minnella, Reuters)

World

What’s behind the Vatican’s shifting approach to Venezuela?

Jovel Álvarez|Feb 9, 2026|5 Min Read

The future pope, right, as a child with his older brother John Prevost. (Vatican Media)

New Leo XIV documentary profiles the ‘solid guy’ who became pope

Mary FioRito|Nov 19, 2025|5 Min Read

Joseph E. Stiglitz, center, co-chair of the Jubilee Commission, speaks at the presentation of the commission's report June 20, 2025, in the Casina Pio IV in the Vatican Gardens. He is seated between Cardinal Peter Turkson, chancellor of the pontifical academies of Sciences and of Social Sciences, and Dominican Sister Helen Alford, president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. (CNS photo/Gabriella C. Marino, PASS)

Finance experts launch report at Vatican on foreign debt relief

Cindy Wooden|Jun 20, 2025|4 Min Read

Pope Francis and members of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality attend the synod’s final working session Oct. 26 in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican.(CNS/Vatican Media)

The 5 top Vatican stories of 2024, explained

John L. Allen Jr.|Dec 31, 2024|8 Min Read

Pope Francis greets U.S. President Donald Trump during a private audience at the Vatican May 24, 2017. (CNS/Paul Haring)

In new Trump term, US/Vatican relations have a puncher’s chance

John L. Allen Jr.|Nov 18, 2024|5 Min Read

Pope Francis meets U.S. President Donald Trump during a private audience at the Vatican in this 2017 file photo. The two leaders found common ground on protecting the unborn and religious freedom but also discussed their different positions on climate change and migrants and refugees. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Vatican will seek dialogue with Trump, hopes he will promote peace, national unity

Crux Now and Cindy Wooden|Nov 7, 2024|5 Min Read

Pope Benedict XVI meets Mary Ann Glendon, former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican and president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, during a meeting with participants in a plenary session of the academy at the Vatican April 30, 2010. (CNS/L'Osservatore Romano)

New memoir reveals the American woman trusted by three popes

Msgr. Richard Antall|Oct 3, 2024|5 Min Read

Schonborn

Catholic pacesetter for the last 30 years integrates Benedict/Francis divide

John L. Allen Jr.|Sep 16, 2024|5 Min Read

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and Pope Francis are pictured in a combination photo. The Vatican confirmed Aug. 9, 2024, that seven priests expelled from Nicaragua arrived in Rome Aug. 8. They had been detained in an assault on a diocese headed by an outspoken bishop as the Ortega regime continued debilitating church and forcing its critics into exile. (OSV News photo//Leonardo Fernandez Viloria, Reuters/Vatican Media)

World

Another group of exiled Nicaraguan priests arrives in Rome

Cindy Wooden|Aug 9, 2024|2 Min Read

Pope Francis greets children of Vatican employees attending a summer camp at the Vatican July 18, 2024. Also in the photo are, to the pope's left, Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, president of the commission governing Vatican City State, and, to the pope's right, Sister Raffaella Petrini, secretary-general of the commission and a member of the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope visits children of Vatican employees attending summer camp

Carol Glatz|Jul 18, 2024|2 Min Read

Trump

Vatican condemns violence at Trump rally, offers prayers for victims, peace

Carol Glatz|Jul 14, 2024|2 Min Read

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