Pope Francis and members of his international Council of Cardinals discussed the possibility of allowing local bishops rather than the Vatican decide on certain matters.

The Vatican has released an online questionnaire to better understand the lives, attitudes and concerns of 16-to 29-year-olds around the world.

Largely forgotten today, Ignaz von Döllinger was one of the most widely respected Catholic intellectuals of his day.

Policies that involve criminalizing and detaining child migrants "are an insult to human dignity," the Vatican observer to U.N. said.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has an estimated 26,000 members in Italy, with the biggest missions based in Milan and Rome.