Coeur, or Basilica of the Sacred Heart, which Émile Zola called a "stone host placed on the open wound of the city," celebrates the 150th anniversary of the laying of its first stone. To celebrate her ...

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It is a rare obscenity when a man of the cloth attempts to rinse the blood off the robes of genocidaires using nothing but ink and vocabulary. But this is precisely what Belgian Catholic priest ...

The Vatican Museums has unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms. These are the spectacularly ...

Hollywood icon Al Pacino makes history by becoming the first major film star to meet Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican during his ...

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican Museums on Thursday unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms, the spectacularly frescoed reception rooms of the Apostolic Palace that in some ...

Vatican City, Jun 2, 2025 / 12:17 pm. The Vatican Library is the custodian of a major part of humanity’s literary heritage. That includes more than 80,000 ancient manuscripts and 2 million ...

Under the cover of darkness, Nomali jumped over a wall, burst into a museum and snatched a human skull from a pedestal before ...

In the U.S., donation baskets are passed around at every Sunday Mass. Not so at the Vatican. Untapped real estate. The Vatican has 4,249 properties in Italy and 1,200 more in London, Paris, Geneva ...

Church government based in Vatican City finds that the Rev. Patrick Hoare’s removal as pastor of St. Matthew Catholic complied with church law.

The tradition of a “conclave bonus” was halted by Pope Francis in 2013, who instead chose to donate the funds to various charities, according to the National Catholic Register. Under the newly ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert F. Prevost of the U.S., appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.