Tag: St. Peter’s Basilica

ROME -- The lawyer for the former Vatican employee accused of trying to sell St. Peter's Basilica an allegedly stolen 17th-century manuscript about plans...

VATICAN CITY -- A former employee of St. Peter's Basilica is in Vatican custody after allegedly being caught in a Vatican-orchestrated sting operation involving...

VATICAN CITY  -- Although Pope Francis usually takes the month of July off -- except for leading the recitation of the Angelus on Sundays...

ROME -- Seven months before the opening of the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica, a Vatican official opened the doors to the official...

VATICAN CITY — For the nearly 10 years that Pope Francis and retired Pope Benedict XVI lived on opposite sides of St. Peter's Basilica,...

VATICAN CITY -- Like a giant Tinkertoy construction, a skeletal tower of scaffolding slowly inched its way up the twisting bronze columns of the...

VATICAN CITY -- The nearly 400-year-old sculpted canopy towering over the main altar of St. Peter's Basilica will be surrounded by scaffolding for most...

Pope Francis will celebrate the World Day of the Poor for the seventh time on Nov. 19. The 2023 World Day of the Poor...

VATICAN CITY -- The whole point of synodality is to serve the Catholic Church's mission of evangelization, an archbishop told participants in the assembly...

VATICAN CITY -- A man with apparent psychiatric problems forced his through a Vatican security gate late May 18 by speeding past Swiss Guards...