A man desecrated the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican by climbing on top of it and throwing six candelabras ...

Some 50,000 people visit St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City daily. The 500-year-old structure, with its 448-foot-high dome, ...

King Charles and Queen Camilla will travel to Italy and the Vatican in April to meet with Pope Francis, as the Catholic ...

Travelers heading to Italy in 2025 should be aware of pickpockets in crowded areas, even in churches or religious sites. They ...

Kingdoms are a fascinating thing to study. For most of human history, people gathered around kingdoms to provide protection ...

The once-powerful archbishop of Peruvian capital Lima and the first-ever cardinal of Opus Dei has acknowledged that the ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – “The horror of the extermination of millions of Jews and people of other faiths” before and during World War II “can neither be forgotten nor denied,” Pope Francis said.

On the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Pope Francis urged the world not to forget the horrors of the ...

The Gospel is a word of compassion, mercy, light, freedom and joy, Pope Francis said. The Gospel "calls us to become ...

The authorship of The Associated Press’s renowned “napalm girl” photograph is being called into question in the new ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican said Sunday that disciplinary sanctions are still in effect against the first-ever cardinal ...

Pope Francis delivers his blessing as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) ...