Each elector swears an oath to protect the church’s freedom and the secrecy of the conclave. As the last oath is complete, ...

The seven Roman churches in the pilgrimage include the four papal basilicas: St. Peter’s Basilica, the Basilica of St. John ...

(photo: Courtesy photo / Jacob Derry) Kristina Millare/CNA World April 17, 2025 Jubilee of Hope pilgrims are undertaking two ancient church ... of St. Paul Outside the Walls.

Archaeologists discovered an ancient city in North Macedonia that might be Lyncus, the capital of an ancient civilization.

Cardinals Burke and Tobin, with deep Wisconsin connections, emerge as potential successors following Pope Francis' death as ...

Circumcision is widely practiced by Jews of all levels of observance, including those who are otherwise non-observant.

The ancient Appian Way, Rome’s Queen of Highways south of the ... of the Imperial Age—has had part of its surviving outer wall cleaned, and a number of subterranean passages used by gladiators ...

Pope Francis did call out Hamas as “evil” and called for them to return Israeli hostages. Yet these moments of moral clarity ...

It’s 250 years since the birth of this prodigious son of a barber and a wigmaker, but his weather-obsessed, sea-enamoured ...

The canyon’s walls ... ancient sites we encountered during nearly a week in Pisidia. The 9,000-person Roman theater in Selge. The mighty city defied foreign rule until it surrendered to Rome ...

Pope Francis, the first pontiff from Latin America, whose warm, humble, no-nonsense manner galvanized the Roman Catholic ...