The Church of the Gesù is located in the Piazza del Gesù in Rome and is one of the great 17th century preaching churches built by Counter-Reformation orders in the Centro Storico.

Historians who studied the building have noticed the similarities between the Church of Jesus in Nice and the Church of the Gesù in Rome. The Nice church was influenced by the Piedmontese baroque ...

(“Bator”) Orobator, S.J., the dean of the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University (JST-SCU), will be among the 364 voting members at the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of ...

Bonifacio (Ted) Lopez (Diocese of Rome), Fr. Arturo Alcantara Arcos, and Fr. Anatoliy Grytskiv, representing the Orthodox Church of Abruzzo-Molise, along with other clergy. During the service, the new ...

ROME – During the Vatican’s recent “trial of the century,” which pivoted on the star-crossed $400 million purchase of a former Harrod’s warehouse in London, the principal accusation ...

The pope, who is the bishop of Rome, ordered a reorganization of the diocese's geographical divisions -- a series of "sectors ...

Pope Francis announced in April 2023 for the first time in church history the General Assembly, which usually only included ...

As he listed the names of the new cardinals, the pope named “His Excellency Monsignor Baldassare Reina, who will be ... vicar general for the Diocese of Rome.” ...

From the lukewarm Laodicea to the overachieving Ephesus, these seven ancient congregations struggled with relatable problems.

LGBT activists urge the pope to overturn a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender people:: Rome, Italy:: New Ways ...

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