A return to Friday abstinence would be good for the soul and for the planet, uniting our devotion to the Lord and reverence ...

Microsoft teams with the Vatican and French startup Iconem to create an intricately detailed digital twin of St. Peter’s ...

Rotblatt Amrany Studio artists Lou Cella and Jessica LoPresti collaborated in 2022 on the bronze sculpture of “Chicago’s ...

Accessible worldwide at Virtual.BasilicaSanPietro.va, the free interactive platform allows anyone in the world to “visit” the ...

Several U.S. Catholic bishops on Wednesday encouraged the church to boldly share Vatican teachings on a range of hot-button ...

Mary is a model of the kind of openness to the Holy Spirit that all Christians should have, Pope Francis said.

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

Mary is always the mother that brings us to Jesus,” the Holy Father said. “Mary does not only point to herself. She points to Jesus.” ...

It’s now possible to wander the St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican emptied of tourists and worshippers. This comes courtesy ...

The pope declared that part of the archives and library be moved to a building on extraterritorial Vatican property at the ...

Pope Francis ... against Catholic intellectual missteps: intransigence, intellectualism, and disdain for popular piety. The pope set certain limits on popular piety—no adoration of images ...

Aimed at reaching out to people unable to go to Rome for the Holy Year and helping the millions who are expected to visit St.