Inside, though, the South Solon Meeting House has a secret unknown even to some who drive through the tiny Maine town every ...

Maybe. It all depends on the choices you make ahead of your trip. People who travel to Rome ask this question more than any ...

Pope Paul V's comparison of Bernini to Michelangelo was another notion that ... grand-scale illusions of the Borghese statues and the Vatican commissions, Bernini was after something subtler ...

The vice president is currently scheduled to meet with the Vatican's secretariat of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and is likely to attend one of the Holy Week liturgies. Pope Francis ...

Thousands of people gathered in the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica to witness the Easter week mass on Holy Thursday. Thousands of worshippers filled the Vatican's St Peter’s Basilica on Holy ...

(photo: Victoria Isabel Cardiel/EWTN News / EWTN) Kristina Millare/CNA Vatican April 15, 2025 A new Vatican-commissioned sculpture by Canadian artist Timothy P. Schmalz titled “Be Welcoming” w ...

Antoni Gaudí, the celebrated Catalan long nicknamed “God’s architect” for designing Barcelona’s Sagrada Família, has been put on the path to sainthood by the Vatican. In a statement ...

The authors of a book published Thursday said the Vatican knew about sexual abuse allegations against French charity icon Abbe Pierre as early as the 1950s. The Catholic cleric -- who founded the ...

For nearly forty years it has been tradition for Dutch growers to donate flowers to the Vatican for the decoration of St. Peter’s Square around Easter time. Dozens of arrangements will adorn a ...