India's Oswald Gracias was among eight high-ranking cardinals from around the world who were on Saturday appointed by Pope Francis in an advisory council to look into ways of reforming the Vatican......
Father Kuriakose Elias Chavara and Sister Euphrasia from India were among six conferred sainthood by Pope Francis on Sunday at a special canonisation mass, a moment of elation and spiritual fervour......
Photograph: Wikimedia Commons Indian nun Mariam Thresia and four others were declared Saints by Pope Francis at a grand ceremony at the Vatican City on Sunday. Mariam Thresia, who founded the......
The Vatican was embroiled in fresh controversy today as one of its top cardinals described paedophilia as a psychological "illness" rather than a "criminal condition". Wilfrid Fox Napier, the......
From being open minded to having a better understanding of the suffering of the masses to shedding the secrecy over the Vatican's activities... the expectations from the next Pope reflect the times......
A group of Vatican Radio employees gave Pope Benedict XVI an iPod nano loaded with special Vatican Radio programming and classical music. Now that Vatican Radio offers podcasts in eight different......
'You make a hit, everything is fit.' IMAGE: Bappi Lahiri at home. Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com Singer-composer Bappi Lahiri, who popularised disco music in India in the 1980s and......
IMAGE: Pope Francis holds weekly audience at the Vatican. Photograph: Vatican Media/Handout via REUTERS Pope Francis remembers soccer legend and fellow Argentine Diego Maradona with affection and......