The relic dispayed just above the tomb of St. Peter will be accessible for public viewing until Dec. 8, the solemnity of the ...

I wished to greet the Virgen de los Desamparados,” the pope told the crowds of pilgrims at the Vatican after placing a white ...

Over the course of her career she has often mischievously played with Catholic imagery, resulting in multiple condemnations ...

St. John Lateran's facade bears the Latin inscription of "Mother and Head of all the Churches in the City and the World." ...

After praising popular piety in his latest encyclical, Dilexit nos, Pope Francis is expected in Corsica in mid-December for a conference on this topic. An expert on popular piety looks at why, despite ...

Insights Works of art are often targets for political dissent.  Thankfully, many art attacks can be painstakingly restored.  Some of these attacks are not meant to destroy but for attention.  Also: 2 ...

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

There is rejoicing that the Vatican has recognised the spiritual fruits of the alleged apparitions of Mary in a small town in ...

Red birettas and scrolls sit on trays on a table before Pope Francis distributes them to new cardinals during a consistory in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican in this file ... prayer and act of ...

Home to 11 cloistered nuns of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, the monastery called “Maryfield ... Mother Teresa Maria said the sisters decided to use the donation for a new statue. At the ...

The verdict regarding Austrian Father Gebhard Paul Maria Sigl, cofounder of the Family of Mary, was reached by a three-judge ...

Following the discovery of the statue in Rome in 1489, Pope Julius II requested the Apollo Belvedere to be brought to the Vatican in the early 16th century to be part of a papal collection known ...