Vatican News media bias and reliability
AllSides and Media Bias/Fact Check place Vatican News as leaning right. We have seen it on 17 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Vatican News biased?
AllSides and Media Bias/Fact Check place Vatican News as leaning right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Vatican News left or right?
AllSides and Media Bias/Fact Check place Vatican News as leaning right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is Vatican News reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Vatican News are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Vatican News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Vatican News’s own report linked underneath.
Pope Leo XIV arrived in Buenos Aires and spoke to President Javier Milei at the Casa Rosada, saying the economy must serve people, not the other way round, and warning against the president’s austerity programme.
Vatican News reported it asPope in Argentina: 'May Christ's love triumph over all individualism and exclusion' (opens Vatican News in a new tab)
A gunman killed six people and wounded 16 in Krakow's Main Square. Polish officials described the attack as an act of terror, and stated the perpetrator held radical far-right views. Police shot and apprehended the suspect, who was taken to hospital.
Vatican News reported it asMassacre in Krakow, the Church: "Hate Will Not Have the Last Word" (opens Vatican News in a new tab)
Pope Leo XIV began his South American tour in Uruguay, addressing abortion and euthanasia. He also called for universal healthcare access, referencing his own recent illness. The visit marks the first papal trip to the region in decades.
Vatican News reported it asPope in Uruguay: Smallness does not mean insignificance (opens Vatican News in a new tab)
Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has declared the UK's Royal Navy and Royal Air Force as terrorist organisations and MI6 as a hostile group. The decision is a response to what Iran describes as hostile actions by the British government.
Vatican News reported it asIran designates British forces ‘hostile’ as standoff with US deepens (opens Vatican News in a new tab)
Iran's army has warned that any new US attack would spread the conflict to a wider geographical area. The warning comes amid diplomatic efforts to avert further hostilities and as both the US and Israel hold crucial elections.
Vatican News reported it asIran’s supreme leader orders ‘immediate and effective’ response to any threat (opens Vatican News in a new tab)
Pope Leo XIV has urged the creation of international institutions to enforce ethical guidelines for artificial intelligence. Speaking at a Vatican gathering, he emphasized that AI should remain a tool, not a person, and that humans must retain control over its development and decisions.
Vatican News reported it asPope on AI: Decisions affecting human life must never be delegated (opens Vatican News in a new tab)
A localized ceasefire in Oleshky, Ukraine, brokered by First Lady Melania Trump, began on Tuesday to facilitate humanitarian aid. This comes as President Zelenskyy reported a significant overnight barrage of Russian missiles and drones.
Vatican News reported it asPope Leo’s appeals help bring humanitarian ceasefire to southern Ukraine (opens Vatican News in a new tab)
Pope Leo XIV stated that "there is no such thing as a holy war" in a video message to religious leaders in Assisi. He cancelled his in-person attendance due to recovery from lung cancer surgery. The gathering marked the 40th anniversary of a peace meeting initiated by St. John Paul II.
Vatican News reported it asPope to Assisi Peace Meeting: 'May we be unarmed instruments of God's peace' (opens Vatican News in a new tab)
Pope Leo XIV has accepted the honorary title of Papal Confrater of the College of St George at St George’s Chapel, Windsor. The announcement from Buckingham Palace marks the anniversary of King Charles and Queen Camilla's state visit to the Vatican.
Vatican News reported it asPope Leo XIV named Papal Confrater of St George’s Chapel, Windsor (opens Vatican News in a new tab)
On 22 October 2026 Pope Leo XIV welcomed a delegation from the American Jewish Committee at the Vatican, recalling shared heritage, citing the Nostra aetate anniversary and warning that even deep disagreements must not lead to prejudice, while a Tel Aviv University study noted 20 Jewish victims in 2025.
Vatican News reported it asPope to American Jewish Committee: ‘We reject together all forms of hatred’ (opens Vatican News in a new tab)
Russia launched a significant coordinated assault on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, striking more than 15 critical electricity generation and transmission facilities. President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that emergency restoration is underway and warned Russia is attempting to cause a widespread blackout before winter.
Vatican News reported it asTrump suspends Russia sanctions as deadly attacks plunge Ukraine into darkness (opens Vatican News in a new tab)
Pope Leo has undergone surgery to remove part of his right lung due to lung cancer. The Vatican reports he is recovering well, walking and eating normally, though questions remain about the extent of the cancer and its impact on his upcoming tour.
Vatican News reported it asPope Leo: I will undergo surgery soon to remove nodule in my lung (opens Vatican News in a new tab)
Journal entries kept by Pope Francis before and during his papacy are to be published this autumn for the first time. The book, titled 'The Private Diary of Pope Francis,' will be released on November 24 in English and four other languages.
Vatican News reported it asVatican to release “The Private Diary of Pope Francis”, a book by Cardinal Fernández (opens Vatican News in a new tab)
Pope Leo XIV visited the Maison Bakhita centre in Paris, an organisation supporting migrants and refugees. He spoke about the dignity of those who are exiled and urged coexistence, peace, and respect for human dignity.
Vatican News reported it asPope at Maison Bakhita: ‘No one is so poor as to have nothing to give’ (opens Vatican News in a new tab)
Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended President Donald Trump's decision to ban CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO from the White House. The outlets have filed a federal lawsuit, arguing the ban violates their First and Fifth Amendment rights.
Vatican News reported it asEurope and the challenge of remaining human (opens Vatican News in a new tab)
Pope Leo XIV visited the Maison Bakhita centre in Paris, an organisation supporting migrants and refugees. He spoke about the dignity of those who are exiled and urged coexistence, peace, and respect for human dignity.
Vatican News reported it asEurope and the challenge of remaining human (opens Vatican News in a new tab)
Eight South Koreans working on a hydropower plant project are missing and 10 others are stranded after a flash flood in Nepal. South Korea's Foreign Ministry has established a task force and plans to send a response team to the affected Rasuwa district.
Vatican News reported it asHundreds missing after deadly flooding near Nepal-Tibet border (opens Vatican News in a new tab)
A 24-year-old Nepali labourer survived a flash flood by clinging to a mango tree after being swept away by a torrent of mud and rock. The disaster has killed at least 150 people and left hundreds missing in Nepal.
Vatican News reported it asHundreds missing after deadly flooding near Nepal-Tibet border (opens Vatican News in a new tab)
Who says so
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How reliably it reports fact
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High factuality
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Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Vatican News.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Vatican City
- Official site
- vaticannews.va
- Seen publishing on
- vaticannews.va
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 17
- Reports listed
- 18
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 14 August 2026
17 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 1 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 3 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and Vatican News ran the story anyway.
Across the 17 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Vatican News’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 14 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 14 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 13 November 2026. Ratings pulled 13 November 2026.
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