VATICAN CITY — The dismissal of a senior figure in the Sovereign Order of Malta over the distribution of contraceptives in parts of the developing world has provoked a serious rift between the Knights ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis launched an investigation Thursday into the ouster of a top official at the Order of Malta, the ancient aristocratic religious order, amid evidence that Francis’ own ...

The Sovereign Order of Malta has recognized an Australian Jesuit priest in Thailand for his efforts to get Pakistani Christian refugees in the kingdom resettled in third countries. On Jan. 25, the ...

Some members have expressed fears that the election will pave the way for constitutional reform that would effectively secularize the order by lessening the powers of the professed knights. The flag ...

Two days of institutional meetings and visits to humanitarian projects in the field marked the start of the trip to Ukraine by the Grand Hospitaller of the Order of Malta, Josef D. Blotz, who arrived ...

The public dispute between the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta has ended in a way apparently acceptable to both sides. Since much has been written already about this, I will only examine the ...

The nearly thousand-year-old Order of Malta is bracing for major reforms in the wake of the election of an Italian nobleman to lead the Catholic chivalric order that carries out charitable works ...

The showdown between the Vatican and the Knights of Malta has come to a brusque end, with the leader of the historic sovereign order resigning at the apparent request of Pope Francis. In a statement ...

When Dr. Robert M. Springer III was diagnosed with stage four esophageal cancer that had spread to his liver in 2013, he thought it was a death sentence. “I should be dead,” Springer said in a recent ...

For the unity and greater good of the Knights of Malta, Pope Francis has promulgated a new constitution and code for the order, appointed a provisional sovereign council and called for an ...

FILE – In this Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013 filer, Members of the Knights of Malta wear a dark cloak with a white, eight-pointed Maltese Cross on the front during a procession to St. Peter’s Basilica for a ...