Pope Urban VIII commissioned Bernini in 1624 to design and build the enormous canopy over the Papal Altar of the Confession, ...

Unless you have looked at a picture to prepare yourself, at first sight the tomb of the Blessed Carlo Acutis, which stands in ...

Restorers have put the finishing touches on the ornate canopy covering the main altar in St. Peter’s Basilica, which has been ...

Vatican City is a holy place, home to the pope and the center of Christianity. Very few live in Vatican City, but millions visit every year.

Prayer chants and the sounding of traditional ram's horns fill the air in the town of Uman, in central Ukraine, as thousands ...

And when they met Pope Francis Sept. 14, the 500th anniversary, they did so in St. Peter's Basilica where the baldachin towering over the papal altar and the tomb of St. Peter is shrouded in ...

The Valdakino, a huge structure located in the middle of the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica, will soon be open to the public ...

King Baudouin of the Belgians was known as a devout Catholic monarch who was uncompromising in his Catholics ideals. This led ...

This is St. Peter’s Memorial, consecrated in 1990 over ... DEATH ON A ROMAN CROSS A crucified man’s heel bone found in a family tomb may rebut the charge that Jesus, executed as a criminal ...

Through a lifetime of reinvention, the vice presidential nominee came to embrace the meanest and most historically ...