Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after jumping onto the main altar and knocking over 19th ... The incident takes place during the Catholic Church’s jubilee year, with 32 million pilgrims ...

By definition, secret agents are supposed to be difficult to identify. It’s doubly hard in the case of the Vatican spies who are the subject of the French historian Yvonnick Denoël’s book because so ...

The 64-year-old Yan Pei-Ming is a contemporary artist who has been living in France since 1981. He is known for his “epic-sized” portraits of figures such as Chairman Mao, St. Pope John Paul II, Bruce ...

An investigation is underway into the cause of a fire that significantly damaged an Attleboro church Wednesday afternoon.

A man desecrated the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican by climbing on top of ... the law that regulates the Catholic Church, establishes in canon 1210 that “in a sacred place ...

St. Aloysius parishioners in Cheektowaga are battling to save their church from shutting down come June, but were informed by ...

The Vatican's charity voiced outrage Monday at what it called the "reckless" and "unhuman" U.S. plans to gut USAID ...

Pope Francis issued a major rebuke Tuesday to the Trump administration’s plans for mass deportations of migrants, warning ...

Fr. Jens Petzold, a Swiss priest based in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, speaks to Vatican News about his work ...