A man has caused minor damage at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after jumping onto the main altar and knocking over 19th ...

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

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

Pope Francis also praised the “important priestly presence” of military chaplains, pointing to the moral and spiritual ...

Pope Francis has thrown a wrench in some of the speculation about a future conclave. He's decided to extend the term of the ...

The Vatican has sought to engage young people in the 2025 Jubilee pilgrimage with the introduction of Luce, an anime-inspired official mascot for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee.

The grandiose Basilica of St. Josaphat attracts more than faithful Catholics – it's admired by architecture lovers and history buffs alike. Modeled after Rome's famous St. Peter's Basilica ...

Pope Francis Sunday raised the first Uruguayan ... The portraits of the ten new saints hung from the façade of St. Peter's Basilica in front of about 50,000 pilgrims, according to Vatican data.

In an inventive mash-up of Catholic Schools Week and the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope declared by Pope Francis, Our Lady of ...

King Charles and Queen Camilla will travel to Italy and the Vatican in April to meet with Pope Francis ... in St. Peter’s Square for the 2019 canonization ceremony of Saint John Henry Newman ...

Over the past century, Catholic leaders have wrestled with how much to embrace new forms of communication technology.