environmentalists are calling on Pope Francis to stay the execution — so to speak — of a tree towering nearly 100 feet tall ...

to decorate St. Peter's Square and the Vatican for Christmas. The petition, started by the Bearsandothers Association, urges ...

This year, a Christmas tree might not appear in St. Peter's Square ... The Ledro community has issued a special petition to ...

Critics say the tradition of gifting a tree to the Vatican’s Christmas display is a ‘useless sacrifice’ and is against the ...

Pope Francis has been quite outspoken about the need to safeguard the environment but now the decision to chop down a ...

From construction, to crowds, and an increased tourist tax, locals share what travelers should know ahead of the Jubilee next ...

Roughly 40,000 people have signed a petition to stop the Green Giant from being cut down, slamming putting up Christmas trees as an “anachronistic outrage,” and one which has roots in Pagan winter ...

2023 8:36 a.m. ROME — Pope Francis on Monday blasted the weapons industry and its “instruments of death” that fuel wars as he made a Christmas Day appeal for peace in the world and in ...

With the Holy Year 2025 beginning on Christmas Eve, the Vatican's 2024 Christmas stamps feature the Jubilee message of hope ...

The Pope should stop this unnecessary anachronistic destruction. The residents of the Val di Ledro in Trentino are revolting ...

Church of the Nativity hosts pilgrims on Christmas Eve Pope Francis, the leader of roughly 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, is himself the grandson of Italian migrants. He said many of today's ...

The committees also refer to Pope Francis's historic encyclical Laudato Si': "We ask ... An initiative introduced by John ...