Petzold tells Vatican News. "I liked that a lot." Eventually, after several stays at Mar Musa, Petzold decided to be baptised there. Shortly after, at the end of 1996, he entered the monastery as a ...

The Nicaraguan government branded the Vatican a “paedophile” state in response to an interview by an exiled bishop describing ...

Fr. Jens Petzold, a Swiss priest based in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, speaks to Vatican News about his work ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican released a partial schedule of Pope Francis’ liturgical celebrations in March and early ...

Head of State Aleksandr Lukashenko met with representatives of Belarus’ religious denominations“We are very lucky that, in its recent ...

The Codex Vaticanus, dating from the first half of the fourth century and preserved in the Vatican Library ... It was discovered in 1844 in the Monastery of St. Catherine on Mt.

Meet Julius Greb, a 95-year-old Catholic handyman who's dedicated his life to maintaining the grounds of St. Joseph Center in ...

Archbishop Angelo Acerbi, a veteran of Vatican diplomacy At 99 ... where he was appointed superior of the St. Joseph Redemptorist Monastery in Ivano-Frankivsk. In 2015, he moved to Newark ...

Sister Colette Fahey remembered Discalced Carmelite Sister Katherine Therese Mezger, a woman of deep faith and unwavering ...

The doors of Santa Marta remain closed to the Dalai Lama. "Yet we would expect that after so long they would open for him too." In these nearly twelve years of pontificate, Bergoglio has ...