This Rome walking tour in Italy shows a historic square with a large fountain, stone obelisk, grand church facade, and ...

On Sunday, all eyes will be on Rome, as one of the most popular popes of the modern era, John Paul II, along with Pope John XXIII, are canonized as saints. From Roman ruins to more than 900 churches, ...

Visitors admire the marble sculptural group “Ecstasy of Saint Teresa” made between 1647 and 1652, by Baroque architect and sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, in the Cornaro Chapel of Rome’s Saint Mary of ...

Two matters, both of them of greatest importance, are before us. On the one hand, there is the Reformation, a decisive turning point in church history. What is more, it is not merely an event of past ...

Each Cardinal of the Catholic Church has a titular church in Rome. For Boston's Cardinal Sean O'Malley it is Santa Maria della Vittoria.The church was of relatively minor significance in Rome until it ...

Topline: Most Catholic churches in the Italian capital will stay open after all with a Friday reversal of the Diocese of Rome’s earlier direction to close churches until April 3 out of concerns for ...

ROME – Less than 24 hours after the Diocese of Rome issued a decree closing all churches to stop the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, officials walked that decision back, saying the about-face came ...