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, the ...

Pope Francis has met with more than 100 comedians from across the world, including Jimmy Fallon, Chris Rock and Whoopi Goldberg, at the Vatican in Rome. The Pope said comedians have the "power to ...

Click on the link to download the free-use footage video showing the digital ecosystem created to welcome to Rome millions of ...

This historic country is not defined by its small size - it's a highly significant city and you can see the whole place in a ...

The Vatican has approved new guidelines from Italian bishops that allow gay men to enter seminaries as long as they abstain from sex, in an unexpected adjustment to how the global Catholic Church ...

Until the age of forty-one, Peter Hessler had spent much of his adult life in China, where he worked as a correspondent for the New Yorker. He had mastered the language, written four acclaimed books ...

You’d be forgiven for counting Indiana Jones dead and buried, much less ready for a return to video games. The modern films form a good enough reason on their own; the acclaim f ...

The conclave, shrouded in centuries-old tradition and secrecy, stands as one of the most captivating rituals in the Catholic ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt unveiled several discoveries near the famed city of Luxor on Wednesday, including ancient rock-cut tombs and burial shafts dating back 3,600 years. They were unearthed at the ...