Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and ...

In 1887, during a pilgrimage to Rome, Thérèse Martin — now known around the world as St. Thérèse of Lisieux — visited the ...

Pope Leo XIV's election marks a historic moment: the first pope from an English-speaking country, and the first from the ...

Francis’ papacy honored Latin American Catholics killed for their social justice work, a theologian explains – and Leo may ...

The idea for depicting the Way of Light was inspired by an ancient inscription found on a wall of the San Callisto Catacombs on the ... formal recognition by the Vatican's Congregation for Divine ...

What’s more metal than playing in a dark, dank catacomb literally lined with the skeletal remains of millions people? Not a whole lot, I’d surmise. But here we are — it’s 2025 and a band played an ...

Not every inch of Paris is as romantic as you think – in fact, the Catacombs are downright chilling. Prior to the creation of the Catacombs in the late 18th century, Parisians buried their dead ...

Still, discussion of potential names began long ago behind the Vatican’s walls and beyond. As the cardinals began meeting in Rome after Pope Francis’ funeral, papal watchers scrutinized ...

“I wish I did not have to vote because I wish that Francis were still alive. But it is a fact that he has left us,” Cardinal Stephen Chow told Gerard O’Connell in an exclusive interview.

Inaugurated in 1672, this baroque-style church named in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi is best known for the network of catacombs located underneath the chapel. The catacombs contain an ...

And he's warned against church leaders who bear the "psychology of princes." The Vatican fired one such "prince" last year: German Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst-- aka "The Bishop of Bling ...