Pope Francis waves before delivering the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for 'to the city and to the world' ) Christmas' day blessing ...

With this, the opening of all five holy doors in Rome for the Roman Catholic Church’s ‘Jubilee of Hope’ is now complete. The ceremony is historic because the basilica was bu ...

Cardinal James Harvey, a native of Milwaukee, opened the Holy Door at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday.

Definitely dark. Father Ambrose Little realizes this ... and various bones of St. Peter in Rome and St. Mark in Venice. In his book Cult Of The Dead: A Brief History of Christianity, the ...

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Vatican Diary. Jubilees have perhaps always been a privileged moment for popes to share their vision of history. Every week, ...

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Israel's minister of diaspora affairs and combating antisemitism asked Pope Francis to clarify his remarks about the need to investigate whether the current war in Gaza constitutes a gen ...

“Conclave” is an intelligent movie for esthetes and cinephiles that forthrightly examines the motivations of pious men. It ...

Even John had not strayed far, travelling between Naples and Rome in October 1369 in a failed attempt to end the schism between Western and Eastern Christianity through a formal conversion to Roman ...

Pope Francis will mark Christmas Eve on Tuesday with a special ceremony launching Jubilee 2025, a year of Catholic celebrations set to draw more than 30 million pilgrims to Rome. The 88-year-old ...