The 2025 Jubilee year of Catholic celebrations drew over 33 million pilgrims to Rome, the Vatican said on Monday, as the last of the faithful passed through the Holy Door of St Peter's Basilica.
Pope Leo XIV called on the Italian Church to develop a "culture of prevention" on clerical child sex abuse, after critics said nothing had changed in 30 years.
Victims of paedophile priests on Tuesday unveiled a campaign for Italy to hold an independent investigation into abuse carried out on the Vatican's doorstep.
Pope Francis on Friday again spoke out against assisted suicide and euthanasia, days before a top Italian court is to examine the thorny question in the largely Roman Catholic country.
Pope Francis said Saturday that silence on sexual abuse can "no longer be tolerated" as he ordered an investigation into Vatican archives concerning former archbishop of Washington Theodore McCarrick, who resigned in July.
Pope Francis on Friday accepted the resignations of two more bishops from Chile, which is investigating more than 100 cases of sexual abuse by the clergy, the Vatican said.
Pope Francis is on the side of victims of more than 300 "predator" priests in the United States who are accused of abusing over 1,000 children across seven decades, the Vatican said Thursday.
A controversial trial of two
investigative journalists and three others involved in the latest Vatican leaks scandal began on Tuesday with judges rejecting an appeal for the charges against one of the reporters to be dismissed.
A gathering of bishops intended to reshape Catholic teaching on the family kicks off Sunday against a backdrop of controversy over the thorny and divisive issue of homosexuality.
An Italian newspaper has outraged the Catholic Church after a reporter went undercover to confession and published articles detailing advice her confessors had given her.
The Catholic Church in Italy from Sunday will implement new guidelines against child sex abuse that have proved controversial because they impose a "moral duty" but no legal obligation to report allegations to the police.
A council of cardinals set up by Pope Francis to advise him on Vatican reforms began its latest meeting on Monday to discuss how to overhaul the Catholic Church's scandal-hit bureaucracy and finances.
The Vatican on Friday criticized a damning UN report on the Catholic Church's handling of child sex abuse cases, saying it had "grave limits" and accusing UN committee members of following "prejudiced" views.
The UN's damning report on the Vatican's handling of child sex abuse cases has turned up the pressure on the Catholic Church to convince a sceptical international community it has adopted a zero-tolerance approach.
The Vatican said on Wednesday that it would study a damning UN report accusing it of failing to stamp out child abuse, but slammed criticism of its religious teachings as "interference".
The Vatican must remove all child sexual abusers from their posts and turn them over to the police, the United Nations children's rights watchdog said on Wednesday.
The Vatican revealed Saturday that some 400 priests were defrocked during the pontificate of now pope emeritus Benedict XVI, following an explosion in claims of child sex abuse by clergymen.
The Vatican insisted on Thursday it is committed to stamping out sexual abuse by the clergy, as top Church officials were grilled before the UN's child rights watchdog.
A woman who was born a man and her husband have written to an Italian cardinal to ask the Catholic Church to officially recognize their marriage, four years after they were controversially wedded in a church in Piagge in the central Marche region.
