By the late 1970s, Archbishop Paul Marcinkus was considered one of the most powerful figures in the Vatican—and certainly one ...

This walking tour captures the monumental interior of Saint Peter’s Basilica, highlighting towering columns, detailed marble work, and classical sculptures. The atmosphere inside Vatican City reveals ...

A popular summer destination for tourists, Ostia will be the first of five parishes where the pope, as bishop of Rome, will celebrate Mass on Sundays in February and March.

AS DONALD TRUMP’S glee in shocking the world with his unhinged antics continues at pace, one incident still has the power to ...

The influential author derides secularism and the modern world. Conservatives—including the vice president—are joining him on a march back to the Middle Ages.

The Vatican has warned a breakaway traditionalist Catholic group that it risked renewed schism if it goes ahead with plans to consecrate new bishops without papal consent.

Theodore Persico Jr., once picked to lead one of New York’s five crime families, was supposed to stay away from his former ...

After he died at 74 on Feb. 9, those who attended and spoke at his funeral services Monday reflected an end game that eludes ...

A new exhibition in Rome is celebrating one of the most important patron-artist relationships in European history.

After defending one of the first priests charged with child sex abuse, he coauthored a 1985 report warning that the problem ...

An author paints a portrait of a man whose conviction brought into the open the hidden proceedings of the Second Vatican ...

‘The Pope’s Exorcist,’ starring Academy Award–winner Russell Crowe and streaming February 12 on HBO Max, is loosely based on ...