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Pope Francis meets with the members of his renewed Council of Cardinals at the Vatican April 24, 2023. Pictured, clockwise from the left, are: Cardinals Gérald C. Lacroix of Québec; Juan José Omella Omella of Barcelona; Seán P. O'Malley of Boston; Fridolin Ambongo Besungu of Kinshasa, Congo; and Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state. Continuing, to the right of the pope are: Bishop Marco Mellino, council secretary; and Cardinals Sérgio da Rocha of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil; Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, India; Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, president of the commission governing Vatican City State; and Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg.

Pope Francis, Council of Cardinals look at need to reform diocesan chanceries

With the help of an expert canon lawyer, Pope Francis and members of his international Council of Cardinals discussed ways that the principles behind his reform of the Roman Curia also can be reflected in the structuring and functioning of diocesan chanceries.

Emanuela Orlandi is pictured in a photo that was distributed after her disappearance in 1983. The Vatican prosecutor has opened a new investigation into the disappearance 40 years ago of Orlandi, the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee.

Pope Francis expresses closeness to Orlandi family after new evidence in case

Forty years since the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, a Vatican schoolgirl who mysteriously vanished at the age of 15, Pope Francis publicly expressed his closeness to her family.

Locals gather at the cordoned scene outside the Lhubirira Secondary School June 17, 2023, after militants linked to rebel group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) killed and abducted multiple people overnight in Mpondwe, western Uganda.

Pope asks for prayers for victims of 'brutal attack' in Ugandan school

Ugandans woke up June 17 to the shock of a school massacre in which at least 39 students and two community members were killed.

Vatican judges order climate activists to pay $30,000 in damages

Vatican judges order climate activists to pay $30,000 in damages

The Vatican's criminal court ordered two climate activists to pay more than $30,000 in damages after they glued themselves to an ancient sculpture in the Vatican Museums to draw attention to the effects of climate change.

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica, uses holy water to bless the main altar in the basilica June 3, 2023, as part of an act of reparation after a man climbed on the altar naked.

Act of reparation performed on altar of St. Peter's Basilica

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica, celebrated a penitential rite at the basilica's main altar June 3 after a man climbed up on it naked before being apprehended.

Pope Francis, cardinals and bishops pray during a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this file photo from Nov. 2, 2022. As of June 2, 2023, two-thirds of the members of the College of Cardinals who are under the age of 80 and eligible to vote in a conclave to elect a new pope are cardinals created by Pope Francis.

Pope Francis has named two-thirds of cardinals eligible to elect his successor

Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, the retired archbishop of Naples, celebrated his 80th birthday June 2 and, consequently, became ineligible to enter a conclave to elect a new pope.

A Vatican City flag, slightly different from the official version, waves outside the Jesuit headquarters in Rome June 1, 2023.

Vexing vexillology: Even the Vatican gets its flag wrong

The flag of Vatican City, yellow and white with crossed keys under the papal tiara, is incorrect in many emojis, flying outside the United Nations and often even on Vatican buildings.

Pope Francis and Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, left, pray before the pope spent three hours speaking with and answering questions from bishops during the spring assembly of the Italian bishops' conference at the Vatican May 22, 2023. The pope has asked Cardinal Zuppi, president of the bishops' conference, to lead a peace mission for Ukraine.

Cardinal Zuppi, Pope Francis' peace envoy, talks about war in Ukraine

"War is a pandemic. It involves us all," said Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, the Italian prelate chosen by Pope Francis to lead an initiative for peace in Ukraine.

A car enters the Sant'Anna entrance to Vatican City State guarded by Swiss Guards and Vatican gendarmes May 19, 2023. A man forcibly drove past security check points to enter the Vatican May 18 before he was arrested and placed in a Vatican detention cell.

Man arrested after car breaches Vatican gate, drawing gunfire from police

A man with apparent psychiatric problems forced his way through a Vatican security gate late May 18 by speeding past Swiss Guards and Vatican gendarmes in a vehicle before being apprehended in a Vatican courtyard.

The flag and crest of Vatican City State are described in the "fundamental law" of the tiny independent nation. Pope Francis issued a new version of the law, which was published by the Vatican May 13, 2023.

Pope Francis issues new 'fundamental law' for Vatican City State

Pope Francis updated the "Fundamental Law of Vatican City State," opening the possibility that laypeople can be members of its governing commission and emphasizing that the independence of the city-state is essential for the mission of the Holy See.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni applauds Pope Francis during a meeting about families and Italy's declining birthrate May 12, 2023, in Rome.

It's unfair, humiliating if only the rich can build a family, Pope Francis says

Starting a family and having children has become a kind of herculean task when instead it should be valued and supported by everyone, Pope Francis said at a meeting in Rome on Italy's severe decline in population growth.

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