VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Visitors to Rome will have the opportunity to experience St. Peter’s Basilica in a new way as part of an ...

Pancreatic cancer survivor Louis Baldachino received an inspiring message of hope from his son, Karl, during this weekend’s ...

Vatican City is one of the world’s smallest countries but is home to the world’s largest church by interior size - the St ...

Three years after he asked the world’s Catholics to walk together in faith on a synodal journey, Pope Francis said that the Church cannot risk becoming “static” but must continue as a “missionary ...

Some believe the basilica on Vatican Hill was built over the martyred bones of the apostle Peter—but is that true? After excavations and DNA tests, the Vatican says they reached a conclusion, but some ...

The statue of the Virgin chosen by the Vatican to represent hope during the opening of the Jubilee comes from Battipaglia, a ...

Mother Lucille Cutrone, founding member of the Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal, peacefully passed on October 27 at age 77. She was surrounded by the love and prayers of her sisters at the Convent of ...

"A sedentary church, that withdraws from life and confines itself to the margins of reality, is one that risks remaining ...

Books return to Galleria Alberto Sordi in Rome. Mondadori, the largest publishing company in Italy, will open a new bookshop at the Galleria Alberto Sordi shopping mall in the historic centre of Rome ...

Bernini's Baldachin will be restored in time for Jubilee Year 2025. The Vatican is to unveil the restored gilded bronze canopy that towers over the high altar of St Peter's Basilica on 27 October, ...

Deacon Anthony Liguori Jr., also known as “Deacon Elvis,” and pictured in an undated combination photo, balances his Catholic ministry in the Archdiocese of Newark, N.J., with a career as a highly ...

Since February the imposing 17th-century canopy, known as a baldachin, has been shrouded in scaffolding as restorers gradually worked their way up to the top of the 10-story structure, affording them ...