Passetto di Borgo, Rome’s historic papal escape route, reopened after years of restoration. Here's how to visit it.

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity began January 18. Once a major obstacle for other Christian churches, the primacy of ...

AUTOBIOGRAPHYHope: the AutobiographyPope FrancisPenguin, $36.99 The best pope of my lifetime was John Paul I. He only lasted ...

The 72cm terracotta model depicting the mythical sea god Triton offers an important link to the Italian artist’s thought ...

The world’s smallest sovereign state has a population of less than 800 and is surrounded by the city of Rome, but the Vatican ...

A cross containing dirt stained with the blood of Sister Dorothy Stang, a U.S. member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur ...

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, a Dominican theologian who helped write the Catechism of the Catholic Church, led the Vienna ...

The Argentine pope has always been critical of the just-inaugurated U.S. president's immigration policy. However, the world's ...

Various videos claim Pope Francis's successor has been appointed, but that's not how a new bishop of Rome is chosen. How does ...

Pope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving a Peruvian-based Catholic movement, the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae ...

The pope’s comments provided the latest indication of a potential rekindling of frictions between the Vatican and the next ...