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Vatican News
Vatican state-funded, Catholic institutional
Vatican News is the official multimedia news portal of the Holy See, owned and funded by the Catholic Church's central administration. Its editorial line reflects the positions and priorities of the papacy and Roman Curia, including Catholic social teaching on immigration, war, and poverty. Under Pope Leo XIV, elected in May 2025, Vatican News has served as the platform for the Holy See's public criticisms of the Trump administration on immigration enforcement, U.S. military action in Iran, and AI policy, amid a widely documented diplomatic rift between Washington and the Holy See.
Owned byOwned and operated by the Holy See through the Dicastery for Communication, a department of the Roman Curia
LeaningVatican state-funded, Catholic institutional
On the administrationbroadly critical
4average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun