Pope Francis is celebrating the Vatican's traditional Christmas Eve midnight Mass in a newly restored St. Peter's Basilica ... At St. Peter's, Michelangelo's Pietà is now protected behind ...
At St. Peter's, Michelangelo's Pietà is now protected ... Pope Francis opens the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican to mark the start of the Catholic Jubilee Year, on Dec. 24 ...
The iconic sculpture’s journey from the Vatican to the 1964 World’s Fair in New York was a monumental feat of faith and ...
Amid security worries, millions of pilgrims are expected to descend on Rome for a Jubilee Year of major Catholic celebrations ...
Vatican cooperation with major IT corporations inspired the creation of a “digital twin” of St Peter’s for the 2025 Jubilee ... model of the Vatican basilica which “The digitisation ...
AI reveals St. Joseph’s face in Raphael’s Madonna della Rosa was likely painted by someone else. The rest matches Raphael’s ...
Papyrus 75 is a single sheet of papyrus that contains the oldest known copy of the Lord’s Prayer, a fragment of the Gospel of ...
The masterpieces of St. Peter’s Basilica have also been restored, including the Baldachin by Renaissance artist Gianlorenzo Bernini and Michelangelo’s Pietà. Joe Long, the founder and ...
Pope Francis has declared 2025 to be a Jubilee year for the Catholic Church. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Claire Giangravé from the Religion News Service about the tradition.