The veneration of Virgin Mary is central to Catholics, from popes to the ordinary faithful. Pope Leo XIV closed the first ...

Italian media suggests the Vatican has enough unworn cassocks on hand, and is honouring Pope Francis's message of environmental and economic sustainability. Aside from those first robes ...

After the 10th century, taking a different name became common practice for popes once they had been elected, as popes from countries such as France and Germany adopted more Italian-sounding names ...

After the 10th century, taking a different name became common practice for popes once they had been elected, as popes from countries such as France and Germany adopted more Italian-sounding names to ...

Once they've hand-picked their "team," players get to predict the new pope's name ... include the late pontiff's secretary of state, Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, closely followed by another ...

Now he is among the cardinals frequently mentioned by Vatican watchers as a contender to be pope. As a priest and ... name of a crime-solving priest on Italian TV. When Francis tapped him to ...

Cardinal Stephen Chow, S.J., the bishop of Hong Kong, reflected on the death and legacy of Pope Francis in this interview ... “I have no Italian. And I’m a Jesuit.” ...

Ten years ago, during the Armenian genocide's centenary mass, Pope Francis acknowledged it as the "first genocide of the twentieth century," quoting the 2001 declaration by Pope John Paul II and ...

ROME — Ahead of the 2013 conclave to replace Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan was tipped to restore the papal hat to an Italian. Italians got the next best thing in Pope Francis ...

In her presentation, Mary Edwards will discuss the impact of Greco-Roman art on the Italian artist, Altichiero, who painted frescoes in the late 14th century in Padua ... Perseus and the Dragon, and ...

The Italian cardinal at the heart of the Vatican's "trial of the century," Angelo Becciu, announced Tuesday he was withdrawing from participating in the upcoming conclave to elect a new pope for ...

A new study has traced it to King Matthias Corvinus, a mid-15th century monarch, thanks to the skull’s resemblance to that of Corvinus’ illegitimate son. The Basilica of the Virgin Mary ...