The Vatican has beatified a Congolese government worker who was killed for resisting corruption, giving young people in a ...

But let’s start with some definitions: the pope is the leader of the Catholic Church which has a rough population of 1.4 billion humans and 64.4 million Americans. He is the head of the Vatican City .

VATICAN CITY – The world's smallest country has a big budget problem. The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds. It primarily finances the Catholic Church's central government ...

Vatican City, Jun 10, 2025 / 14:11 pm. Pope Leo XIV received papal representatives at the Vatican on Tuesday, reminding them that the Church “will always defend the sacrosanct right to believe ...

The Vatican bank and the city state's governorate, which controls the museums, also make annual contributions to the pope. As recently as a decade ago, the bank gave the pope around 55 million ...

In the U.S., donation baskets are passed around at every Sunday Mass. Not so at the Vatican. Untapped real estate. The Vatican has 4,249 properties in Italy and 1,200 more in London, Paris, Geneva ...

That leaves Pope Leo XIV facing challenges to drum up the funds needed to pull his city-state out of the red. Withering donations Anyone can donate money to the Vatican, but the regular sources ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The world’s smallest country has a big budget problem. The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds. It primarily finances the Catholic Church’s central gove… ...