Italian nun entered the convent 88 years ago.
Sister Serafina, the oldest nun in Europe, has died in Rome at the age of 111.
Born Anna La Morgia in 1913, Suor Serafina joined the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Hear...
Historic event returns to the streets of Trastevere from 20-28 July 2024.
Rome is steeped in religious traditions however few are as popular as the Festa de' Noantri which has attracted large crowds every summer for alm...
Francis to visit Campidoglio for second time.
Pope Francis will visit Rome city hall on Monday 10 May where he will address the city council on the theme of the Vatican's upcoming Jubilee Year 2025.
The visit takes p...
43 years ago today gun shots in Rome rang out around the world.
Today is the 43rd anniversary of the near-fatal assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II, an event that stunned the world.
On the fateful day - 13 May...
Swiss Guards have protected popes for more than 500 years.
Each year on 6 May the Vatican holds a pomp-filled ceremony to swear in new recruits into the Pontifical Swiss Guards, among the oldest standing armies in the w...
Swiss Guards celebrate 518 years in 2024.
The Vatican will hold its annual ceremony to swear in new recruits into the Swiss Guards, the world's smallest army, on Monday 6 May.
The pomp-filled event, held in the S. Da...
Another major Jubilee 2025 project gets underway in Rome.
Rome has started works to transform the piazza in front of the papal Archbasilica of St John Lateran, or San Giovanni in Laterano, for the Vatican's Jubilee Year...
Way of the Cross at Colosseum in 2024.
The annual Via Crucis or Way of the Cross ceremony led by Pope Francis will take place at the Colosseum on Good Friday, 29 March, from 21.00 until 23.30.
The torchlit procession...
English-language religious services in Rome at Easter.
All Saints’ Anglican Church, Via del Babuino 153/b, tel. 0636001881.24 March. Palm Sunday 10.30.28 March. Maundy Thursday Eucharist. 19.00.29 March. Good Friday. Th...
First restoration of Baldachin since the 18th century.
St Peter's Baldachin, the gilded bronze canopy that towers over the Vatican basilica's high altar, is being restored for the first time in 250 years.
Designed by...
Rome to become "open-air construction site" as city prepares for influx of pilgrims in 2025.
Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri has pledged that the slew of public construction projects underway in the Italian capital ahead o...
2023 Christmas schedule at St Peter's.
Pope Francis will celebrate the 'Midnight Mass' at St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican on Christmas Eve at 19.30.
Despite its name, the Christmas Eve Mass has not been celebrated...
A short guide to Christmas cribs and Nativity scenes to visit in Rome over the festive season.
100 Presepi
The 2023 edition of 100 Presepi, Rome's international nativity crib exhibition, takes place under the colonnade...
Becciu expected to appeal sentence by Vatican court.
Cardinal Angelo Becciu was convicted by a Vatican criminal court on Saturday of embezzlement and fraud and sentenced to five and a half years in jail in a historic ru...
Italy marks 800 years since first Nativity scene in Greccio.
The pilgrimage town of Assisi in Italy's central Umbria region lights up this Christmas in honour of the first living Nativity scene created by St Francis in...
English-language religious services in Rome for the 2023 Christmas season.
Wanted in Rome has put together a list of the times of Christmas religious services and Masses in English in Rome for 2023. For the programme of...
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History of the U.S.A. in 76 songs and Tunes by Ken Laufer
Humorous and Poignant
Solo pianist, Paige Short
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one without husband the other without brother.
The night escape from the moon
they will be all together soon. The t...
