Tag: Vatican

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy listens to reportersâ questions during a meeting with media in the U.S. ambassador to the Holy See residence in Rome, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Energy and Environment

EPA chief at Vatican discussing moral obligation for Catholics on climate change

Zack Colman · January 30, 2015 3:22 pm

Pope Francis next year will instruct the world's 1.2 billion Catholics to take action on climate change on moral and scientific grounds, according to a report. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Energy and Environment

Pope Francis to issue climate change edict: Report

Zack Colman · December 29, 2014 3:20 pm

Beltway Confidential

Vatican to hear sexual abuse appeals

Paul Gonzalez · November 12, 2014 9:57 am

Pope Francis most likely won't intervene in any race for Rhode Island governor, but that's not the impression you'd get from a new flyer supporting Democratic nominee Gina Raimondo. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Did the pope just endorse a Democratic candidate in Rhode Island?

Becket Adams · November 3, 2014 8:44 pm

Longtime Boston Mayor Tom Menino dies at 71

Kelly Cohen · October 30, 2014 4:23 pm

National Security

Vatican seeks Mideast Christians’ right of return

Washington Examiner · October 4, 2014 1:35 pm

Vatican: Ex-envoy can be tried by Dominican court

Nicole Winfield · August 25, 2014 11:35 pm

One Cheer for Pope Francis

Lee Smith · August 19, 2014 8:33 pm

Soccer fans of the Argentina national soccer team wear masks with faces of Pope Francis and Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi during a live telecast of the soccer World Cup semifinal match between Argentina and Netherlands, inside the FIFA Fan Fest area on Copacabana beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, July 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Vatican casts doubt on papal World Cup party

Washington Examiner · July 10, 2014 12:28 pm

French financier to head Vatican bank

Frances D'emilio · July 9, 2014 11:48 am

Pope Francis celebrates a mass where he bestowed the Pallium, a woolen shawl symbolizing their bond to the pope, to 24 new new Metropolitan Archbishops, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, June 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

Pope leads long Vatican Mass after health setbacks

Washington Examiner · June 29, 2014 10:35 am

FILE - This March 15, 2013 file photo shows Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, papal nuncio for the Dominican Republic, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Wesolowski has been convicted by a church tribunal of sex abuse and has been defrocked, the first such sentence handed down against a top papal representative, the Vatican said Friday, June 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Manuel Diaz, File)

Vatican defrocks ex-ambassador in sex abuse case

Nicole Winfield · June 27, 2014 7:40 pm