A U.S. tourist visiting Rome needed 80 stitches after he was impaled while climbing over a fence at the Colosseum, local ...

Ahead of the secretive conclave to elect the next pope, all mobile phone signals will be deactivated in the Vatican on Wednesday, CNN reported, citing Italian state media. The Vatican also plans to ...

To ensure full privacy during the conclave, special signal jammers will also be used around the Sistine Chapel. These will ...

St. Bartholomew Roman Catholic Church in Elmhurst was packed last Friday for a Vigil Mass of Repose for Pope Francis, who ...

"The court is attempting to handle the matter in such a way as to help Father Peter and to avoid scandal to the Church," the ...

The closing of the conclave in the Sistine Chapel will be preceded in the morning by a mass for the pope who will be elected.

The Italian premier’s tireless triangulation reflects her almost preternatural ability to mediate, ingratiate, and negotiate.

Archaeology buffs might find the Basilica di San Clemente interesting as it's a veritable nesting doll of churches. It's a second century pagan temple, underneath a fourth-century church ...

Federal student loans go into default after 270 days without payment. The move comes as President Donald Trump is dismantling ...

Raniero Mancinelli is taking no chances. In a cramped backroom atelier just steps from St. Peter's Basilica, the 86-year-old ecclesiastical tailor is sewing not one but three white papal cassocks — ...