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The Church’s Conservative Shift Toward Trump: Müller, Dolan, Burke, and the Battle for the Catholic Vote.The relationship between the Catholic Church and U.S. politics is increasingly polarized, with conservative clerics...
Vatican says pontiff's situation remains "complex" as doctors diagnose double pneumonia.
Pope Francis has shown the onset of pneumonia in both lungs, and his respiratory infection continues to "present a complex picture...
Pontiff is in hospital in Rome with a respiratory tract infection.
Pope Francis' respiratory tract infection will require a different course of treatment and a longer hospital stay due to the "complex clinical picture",...
Rome Inaugurates "Spazio Accoglienza" for the Fragile and Disabled: A New Beacon of Charity for the 2025 Jubilee
In a heartfelt ceremony led by Cardinal Baldassare Reina, the "Spazio Accoglienza" for fragile individual...
Christmas blessing at St Peter's follows launch of Jubilee Year in Rome.
Pope Francis on Christmas Day will impart his traditional blessing Urbi et Orbi (to the city and the world) at midday from the balcony above St Pe...
English-language religious services in Rome for the 2024 Christmas season.
A quick guide with the times of Christmas religious services and Masses in English in Rome for 2024. For the programme of Pope Francis' Christma...
Assisi celebrates Canticle of the Creatures.
The pilgrimage town of Assisi in Italy's central Umbria region lights up at Christmas to mark the 800th anniversary of St Francis's best-known text, the Canticle of the Creat...
A quick guide to Christmas cribs and Nativity scenes to visit in Rome over the festive season.
100 Presepi
The 2024 edition of 100 Presepi, Rome's international nativity crib exhibition, is taking place under the colon...
Christmas tree will stay in place until 12 January.
The Vatican's Christmas tree arrived in St Peter's Square on Thursday amid controversy, after an appeal to Pope Francis to spare the 200-year-old fir was ignored.
M...
40,000 people sign petition to save 'Green Giant' tree from being chopped down and taken to St Peter's Square in Rome.
A controversy has broken out over this year's Christmas tree in the Vatican, destined to come from t...
Venerable English College in Rome opens to the public for tours for the first time ever.
Rome's Venerable English College, the oldest British institution outside the UK, is opening its doors for guided tours for the fir...
Italian friar seeks to attract young people to Mass.
A Franciscan friar has sparked controversy in Italy over his "2 for 1" offer of a free spritz after Mass to churchgoers in Urbino on Sunday evenings.
A poster adve...
Pope Francis to attend Rome celebrations in honour of fourth-century miracle snowfall in August.
Rome celebrates La Madonna della Neve (Our Lady of the Snows) by recreating a miracle snowfall outside the Basilica di S....
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...
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...
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...
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