Pope Francis is scheduled to address a large group of worshipers outside of Rome's Gemelli hospital shortly after noon local ...

Pope Francis made his first public appearance in five weeks on Sunday morning after battling a life-threatening case of ...

Rome is in the midst of a major uplift with billions of euros pouring in from a European Union pandemic recovery fund just as the Vatican City celebrates a jubilee.

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For over a thousand years, basilicas have been stages for history. Charlemagne knelt in St. Peter’s Basilica to be crowned ...

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the ...

The Vatican on Tuesday launched new pastoral care guidelines for the protection and promotion of human life to mark the 30th anniversary of St. John Paul II’s encyclical letter Evangelium Vitae.

According to this booklet, the Catholic ... and statues. According to the 25th Session of this General Council: The images of Christ and of the Virgin Mother of God, and of the saints are to ...

Pilgrims have been pouring into a medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church’s most celebrated ...

Shortly before returning to his home in the Vatican on Sunday, Pope Francis made a brief appearance from a fifth-floor balcony of the Gemelli Clinic in Rome to a crowd of faithful gathered outside ...

"I hope the Holy Father returns among us as before." The National Catholic Reporter's Rome Bureau is made possible in part by the generosity of Joan and Bob McGrath. Vatican, Vatican News ...

The Vatican press office announced March 18 that ... "This morning, on the solemnity of Saint Joseph, the Holy Father concelebrated Holy Mass," the Holy See added. After a long critical phase ...