As Forbes ’ Leslie Katz reports, Pope Francis, the current head of the Catholic Church, encouraged the Fabbrica di San Pietro, the organization that maintains the historic building, to “use the latest ...

A local Italian group launched an online petition urging Pope Francis, the Vatican and others to stop the “fir tree-icide” of ...

The basilica, consecrated on Nov. 18, 1626, is a place of beauty and transcendence, prayer and worship. It is a place made ...

Ricci entered the Jesuit novitiate in Rome on 1571 at the age of 19, and from then until 1577 studied at the Collegio Romano ...

Here are three things to know about the historical, architectural, and spiritual significance of the Basilicas of Sts. Peter ...

Vincenzo Randazzo wasn’t 100 percent sure how this stop was going to work out. It was June, and he was on a bus with 20-some college students winding along the rugged hillsides between Rome and Naples ...

The Romans thank Saint Francis of Assisi for this. He's known for teaching the ricotta-making process to Lazio farmers in the ...

COMMENTARY: A physician’s study of the Sudarium of Manoppello brings a new look at the ‘dazzling brightness of Christ’s face’ ...

Once the tour ends just before Christmas, the relic will go back to its resting place in Rome. “This is the first time it has ...

Israeli warplanes flatten to the ground a residential building near the Saint George Hospital in the southern district of ...

Through his ministry to young adults in Miami and beyond, Father Rafael Capó seeks to enable young Hispanics to live out their call.

At the dawn of the Christian faith, we see Jesus defining what the spiritual struggle of the coming millennia would be about: ...