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 ...

ROME (AP) — Francis has written to the city's church leaders and religious order priests for any available church properties to be used for the homeless or residents facing possible eviction because ...

Rome is a splendour of religious riches that attracts over 30 million visitors annually, and 2025 is a particularly significant year for this cradle of Catholicism. The Vatican is celebrating a ...

Less than one day after the Diocese of Rome issued a decree to close all churches to the public, the vicar general revised the decree Friday saying he will leave this decision to the discretion of ...

The discussion among Protestant churches themselves is a matter wholly different from the discussion between the Protestant churches and Rome. All the Protestant churches trace their origin back to ...

Less than one day after the Diocese of Rome closed all Roman churches to the public, the cardinal who oversees the diocese reversed himself, saying he would leave that decision to parish pastors. Both ...

ROME — Every morning during the 40 days of Lent, a band of worshippers walk literally in the footsteps of early, persecuted Christians, visiting some of the world's oldest churches in preparation for ...

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 ...

Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, papal vicar of Rome, said he spoke to Pope Francis March 12 before ordering the closure of all churches in Rome because of the coronavirus pandemic; the next day, he said ...

I can see my breath inside the church of St. Balbina. Some 1,700 years ago this was prime real estate, just off Rome’s main thoroughfare, the Via Appia, an easy stroll to the Circus Maximus or the ...

ROME -- Like elsewhere in Europe, museums and art galleries closed in Italy in the spring and again in the fall to contain the spread of covid-19, leaving virtual tours as the best option for art ...

Some of Rome's Catholic churches reopened Friday after Pope Francis voiced displeasure with the Italian authorities' push to shut them because of the coronavirus pandemic. The rare standoff between ...