He wept at one point recounting his ordeal to reporters gathered at the Rome headquarters of Italy's Jewish communities. He ...

A Catholic Church counsellor has been remanded to Luzira prison on charges of fleecing an elderly couple of 150 million ...

Environmentalists have called on the pope to halt the chopping down of a tree destined for St. Peter’s Square this Christmas, ...

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The delegation was led by the Hostage Family Forum, the Foreign Ministry, Israeli embassies in Rome and the Vatican, the ...

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His latest drama is set in the Vatican but director Edward Berger says "Conclave" is about people striving for power and ...

The area in and around the Vatican has long attracted fake priests and bishops, some simply drawn by the thrill of seeing how ...

Italy — The launch of St. Peter's Basilica's AI-powered "digital twin" was not meant to replace actual visits to the iconic ...

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

I'm a historian of the medieval papacy and editor of the forthcoming three volumes of the Cambridge History of the Papacy. So ...

Pope Francis appointed a new preacher of the papal household: a 53-year-old Italian Capuchin priest who studied computer science and mathematics and discovered his vocation while ...