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Pope Francis speaks during a meeting with members of Catholic Charismatic Renewal International Service (CHARIS) at the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, November 4, 2023

Pope Francis to meet with Gaza hostages' families

Pope Francis leads the Pentecost Mass at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican May 28, 2023.

What's true and false about the Vatican and Temple artifacts - opinion

By HARRY HIRSCHEL MOSKOFF

World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder gives Pope Francis a a “Kishreinu” (Hebrew for “Our Bond”) document marking influence of the Catholic Church's Nostra Aetate declaration on Catholic-Jewish relations, Oct. 19, 2023.

In a first, a Jewish organization opens an office at the Vatican

By GABE FRIEDMAN/JTA

Pope Francis holds weekly audience at the Vatican, December 2, 2020.

Vatican offers mediation to release hostages, defuse Gaza conflict

By REUTERS

POPE FRANCIS blesses new Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa during a consistory ceremony to elevate Roman Catholic prelates to the rank of cardinal, in Saint Peter’s square at the Vatican last week.

The first resident cardinal in Jerusalem's history

By JUDITH SUDILOVSKY

POPE PIUS XII appears in an undated file photo from the archives of Vatican newspaper ‘Osservatore Romano.’

The Vatican knew about the Holocaust, WW2-era letter reveals

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Pope Pius XII at the end of Mass.

WWII -era documents name Jews aided by Catholics in fascist Rome

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Pope Francis leads the Vespers with members of the clergy at the Mosteiro dos Jeronimos (Jeronimos Monastery) during his apostolic journey to Portugal on the occasion of the XXXVII World Youth Day, in Lisbon, Portugal, August 2, 2023

Pope acknowledges his Russia comments were faulty

By REUTERS

The ancient theater of Nero was only known from ancient texts

Excavation for new luxury hotel reveals ancient Roman theater

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.

Israeli scholars delve into Vatican’s Hebrew manuscript collection

Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra at the Vatican

Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra Concert plays festive concert at the Vatican

By ALAN ROSENBAUM

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen at the Foreign Press Association briefing, July 3, 2023.

FM Eli Cohen works to strengthen Israel-Italy ties

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Emanuela Orlandi, who went missing from the Vatican City in 1983.

Vatican says has new leads on missing schoolgirl, 40 years after she vanished

By REUTERS

Pope Francis holds the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 8, 2023.

Pope Francis orders former Benedict aide to leave Vatican

By REUTERS

Pope Francis leads a mass to open the synod of bishops in Vatican City, October 10, 2021.

Pope 'progressively improving' after surgery

By REUTERS

Pope Francis leads the Angelus prayer from a window of the Apostolic Palace at Saint Peter's Square, at the Vatican, February 27, 2022.

Pope to meet clergy sexual abuse victims in Portugal

By REUTERS

Pope Francis leads the Pentecost Mass at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican May 28, 2023.

Purification rite in St. Peter's after naked man desecrated pope's altar

By REUTERS

PAUL RICHARD Gallagher, Vatican Secretary for Relations, meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Vatican, earlier this month.

Vatican 'foreign minister' talks Middle East, Ukraine, China and antisemitism - interview

By LISA PALMIERI-BILLIG