Lived in the 1st century A.D. Died 100 A.D. He is believed to have been the fourth bishop of Rome and served during the last decade of the first century. Around 96, he sent a letter from the ...

Pope Francis celebrated first vespers for the vigil of the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, in St. Peter’s Basilica on Tuesday.

The Nativity of Christ, celebrated on December 25th, is a central festival in the Christian liturgical year. It commemorates ...

The first Holy Year was called in 1300, and in recent times they are generally celebrated every 25 to 50 years. Pilgrims who ...

He prevailed upon Pope Pius VII to come from Rome for the coronation. The ceremony was a mix of both church and state; the Holy Father retired to the sacristy for the civil oath-taking — a kind ...

On Dec. 31, while many people are preparing for their New Years Eve parties, some Roman Catholics will also mark the feast ...

On the feast of the Holy Family, Cardinal Baldassare Reina opened the Holy Door at Rome’s Basilica of St. John Lateran, the third such ceremony since Pope Francis inaugurated the Jubilee Year of 2025 ...

The life of the church in 2024 was defined as much by what did not happen, as by what did. The most important thing that did ...

The New Testament accounts of the historical Jesus show that he was radical in his encounters with women and treated them ...

Pope Clement VII personally received Parmigianino ... when noblewoman Maria Bufalini commissioned it for her husband and father-in-law’s burial chapel at Rome’s San Salvatore in Lauro.

The St Nicholas Church in Demre, Antalya ... further shaped by cultural influences such as Clement Clarke Moore’s poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” and Coca-Cola’s iconic 20th-century ...

Father Cosmas Simonopetritis, a former senior administrator in Mount Athos, the semiautonomous monastic community where the Protato church stands, says Sotirakoglou’s and his own research ...