The Vatican has said that the pilgrimage to Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, can yield ‘spiritual benefits’ but refrained from calling the apparitions genuinely supernatural.

The statue of the Virgin chosen by the Vatican to represent hope during the opening of the Jubilee comes from Battipaglia, a center particularly renowned for buffalo mozzarella. The 19th-century ...

cofounder of the Family of Mary, was reached by a three-judge ecclesiastical tribunal Sept. 18 and approved by Pope Francis Oct. 11. The decision was then formalized by the Vatican’s Dicastery ...

Initially, it was founded as a benevolent religious association to help churches persecuted by communism during the Cold War when many priests behind the Iron Curtain ended up in prison.

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Stefano Costantino / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images The Vatican’s famous ... Experts think the artwork is a Roman replica of a lost Greek bronze statue created by the sculptor ...

Credit: Vatican Media The wooden chair itself is steeped ... a special place was reserved for Simon Peter in that room where Mary, mother of Jesus, also prayed with the disciples,” he added.

Some believe the basilica on Vatican Hill was built over the martyred bones of the apostle Peter—but is that true? After excavations and DNA tests, the Vatican says they reached a conclusion ...

Following the discovery of the statue in Rome in 1489, Pope Julius II requested the Apollo Belvedere to be brought to the Vatican in the early 16th century to be part of a papal collection known ...

Speaking to thousands of people gathered in the sunny Vatican square on Nov. 3, Francis commented on the day’s Gospel passage, which recounts one of Jesus’ many discussions in the temple of ...

The Vatican announced Tuesday that it has renewed ... crosses from churches and have replaced images of Christ and the Virgin Mary with images of President Xi Jinping, according to a recent ...