More than 6,000 seminarians, bishops, and priests from five continents are in Rome this week to celebrate their jubilee as ...

The Eucharistic miracle in Orvieto played a key role in launching the Solemnity of Corpus Christi. At right, a fresco from ...

A new study suggests that the ancient Catholic practice of praying the rosary may offer comparable mental health benefits to ...

Pope Leo XIV will canonize Blesseds Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati together Sept. 7, the Vatican announced.

What is it that makes a church building “sacred?” Why do we enter great churches and cathedrals and gasp with wonder while ...

CATANIA, Italy – Winds were strong enough to knock a passenger overboard a cruise ship docked in Italy last Friday. The passenger fell into the water as strong winds separated the Norwegian Epic from ...

The Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Tournai was built in the first half of the 12th century. It is especially distinguished by a Romanesque nave of extraordinary dimensions, a wealth of sculpture on its ...

The eruption started early in the morning on Monday, with Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) notifying about the volcanic activity in a statement issued at 4.14 am local ...

It was part of a temporary art installation inside the Catholic Sacred Heart Cathedral in Central Bendigo. The sculpture by is one of five in a series depicting life stages. ( Supplied: Ben Wrigley ) ...

Italy’s Mount Etna Volcano Erupts, Sending Tourists Fleeing. By Tasos Kokkinidis. June 2, 2025. Image of volcano eruption from airport. Etna’s eruption in 2021. Credit: US Navy. The Mount Etna volcano ...

The cathedral, on the contrary, is built to enshrine the altar of sacrifice.’ Gibberd has answered this demand by putting the altar in a dead central position; by bending the congregation round it in ...