The Pontifical Swiss Guard is preparing a commemorative year to mark the 500th anniversary of the Sack of Rome, in which 147 Swiss Guards lost their lives protecting the pope.
The Via Francigena nel Sud leads south from Rome to the heel of Italy, and offers a quiet, affordable and 'rough around the ...
Close-up of St. Peter's altar inside St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. (photo: Viacheslav Lopatin / Shutterstock) The ...
Pontifical solemn high Mass is celebrated Oct. 25 by Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s ...
On October 8 of the year 451, hundreds of bishops gathered in the basilica of Saint Euphemia, in Chalcedon, opposite ...
Two priests arguing in a café over Manchester City, a nun filling her supermarket trolley with pork and beer, a Roman wedding ...
COMMENTARY: To be ordained a deacon on the feast of St. Francis 25 years ago seemed an unintended blessing for a Church that ...
Researchers argue that the tenth-century coins provide new evidence of a bustling English community located next to the ...
Pope Leo XIV named Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, who has served for over five years as archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica and ...
Now those corroded coins have achieved something no medieval manuscript could: they have proved that a busy English ...
On 6 May 1527, the Pontifical Swiss Guard defended Pope Clement VII “with extraordinary courage and unwavering loyalty.” On ...
St Peter’s Basilica (Basilica di San Pietro) in Vatican City will host a Holy Mass for the inauguration of the academic year ...