More than two dozen popes have celebrated Mass under the giant canopy that rises over the main altar of St. Peter's Basilica, ...

Bishops Albert Bahhuth, Matt Elshoff, Brian Nunes, and Slawomir Szkredka report back from a Vatican course for new Catholic ...

In a move akin to kicking Lenin out of Moscow's Red Square, the mayor of Belgrade wants to rid the Serbian capital of the ...

Pope Francis has seen the progress on the baldacchino and, Cardinal Gambetti, said, he “appreciated it very much.” A ...

A tomb of a medieval Catholic saint was recently opened last month for research – and the condition of her body stunned those who found her. In an Aug. 28 press release translated from Spanish to ...

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

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

Experts conducting the first renovation in 250 years of a towering altar canopy in the Vatican provided a sneak peek of their ...

The Vatican is to unveil the newly-restored gilded bronze canopy that towers over the high altar of St Peter's on 27 October, ...

The famed Baldachin of St Peter's, the magnificent Baroque masterpiece by Gian Lorenzo Bernini that rises above the high ...

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

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