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 ...

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.

A man desecrated the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican by climbing on top of it and throwing six candelabras that were on the altar to the ground, according to the Italian news agency ...

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Pope Leo XIV canonized Venezuela’s beloved “doctor of the poor” Sunday, offering the South American nation its first saint.

Pope Leo XIV has canonized José Gregorio Hernández, Venezuela's 'doctor of the poor,' giving the nation its first saint. Papua New Guinea also gained its first saint.