The contemporary art installation was audible via speakers in the portico, or entrance, of St. Peter’s Basilica. Statues illuminated in ethereal blue light during the special evening access to St.

The same Scripture verse also inspired Schmalz’s Angels Unawares sculpture — also located within St. Peter’s Square — which depicts 140 migrants of different ethnicities and nationalities standing on ...

St Peter’s Basilica was kept open almost all night on Wednesday, April 23, to accommodate huge crowds of mourners The church closed for just one hour Visitors can continue to pay their respects to the ...

Over 1,000 LGBTQ Catholics and their families walked through the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica this weekend as part of a Jubilee pilgrimage listed on the Vatican’s official Holy Year calendar. The ...

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In a world where kids are consistently glued to their screens and Minecraft rules the digital playground, the Vatican is ...

As Pope Francis remains hospitalized in Rome, thousands of faithful from around the world have been gathering by St. Peter's and by the hospital to pray the rosary for him.Dating to the Middle Ages ...

An exact-scale replica sculpture brings prayerful visitors of the Bucks County Catholic church closer than they could get to ...

Pope Leo XIV has canonized Venezuela's “doctor of the poor” before tens of thousands of people. He has given the South American nation its first saint.