The pope’s wheelchair came to a stop before the small Holy Door, typically sealed, in the grand St. Peter’s Basilica. According to tradition and a ritual largely unchanged since the 1500s ...

Speaking with ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner, Father Giuseppe Bonomo, an Italian priest at the Atri ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will meet with Pope Francis in January, likely the president's final international trip just days before he leaves the Oval Office, the White House announced on ...

VATICAN— Here’s the full text of Pope Francis’ message for the 58th World Day of Peace ... First, I renew the appeal launched by Saint John Paul II on the occasion of the Great Jubilee of the Year ...

Italy — where there is a Holy Door instituted by Pope St. Celestine V — emphasized that the jubilee is also a unique time for “personal and community conversion.” In fact, during each ...

The Cathedral of Saint Peter in Vatican ... These astonishing diplomatic efforts made by the Pope extended to the Byzantine Empire as well, showing how well-connected the final Greek Pope was. For ...

St. Sylvester was born in Rome around 250 ... Sylvester continued to deny having anything of value, and after the governor died, the guards set him free. Pope Melchiades heard of Sylvester’s courage ...

(RNS) — A group representing the leaders of the United States’ largest Jewish organizations has written a letter to Pope Francis criticizing his recent condemnation of Israeli airstrikes that ...

Francis is the first pope from the Americas ... Instead of a palace above St. Peter's Square, he chose the Vatican guest house Casa Santa Marta as his home. We met him there under a painting ...

The Pope has called for "hope and kindness" in a message for Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4's Today programme. Pope Francis emphasised the importance of humility in the recording broadcast on ...