Every year on Feb. 22, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, a tradition that dates back more ...

Pilgrims from around the world continue to travel to Rome for the 2025 Jubilee Year, and though they won’t catch a glimpse of ...

Many who know him said that Francis, driven by a sense of mission and a discipline born of his early training, essentially ...

Rome — Pope Francis' respiratory tract infection is presenting a "complex clinical picture" that will require ... with artists as part of the Catholic Church's Holy Year celebrations.

The investigation, led by the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, the country’s arts and culture police, and coordinated with the Rome prosecutor’s office, started ...

Based on the book “The Life of Our Lord” by Charles Dickens, the sweeping animated feature chronicles the life story of Jesus Christ. First-time director Seong-ho Jang helmed the film and ...

Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s masterpiece captures the folly of humanity’s desire to reach heaven on its own terms.

Pope Francis was admitted to a hospital in Rome on Friday for a respiratory infection ... Jorge Mario Bergoglio, elected as the 266th pope of the Catholic Church in 2013, has been known for ...

Pope Francis slept well and ate breakfast Wednesday, the Vatican said, after he developed pneumonia in both lungs in a further complication in the condition of the 88-year-old pontiff ...

ROME, Italy – Pope Francis, hospitalized for bronchitis four days ago, faces a “complex clinical picture”, the Vatican said on Monday, indicating that the 88-year-old’s stay will be longer ...

The Vatican said at the time that the medical tests continued to indicate “a complex picture” for one of the oldest popes in the church’s ... into a hospital in Rome last week for ...

Sister Raffaella Petrini, an Italian nun, was named president of the Vatican City State, the 44-hectare (108-acre) territory ...