On a barge on Rome's River Tiber, a stone's throw from the Vatican, Loan Rocher was "ordained" in a secret ceremony in ...

What does it mean to be a faith spanning the globe, not tied to a particular people but meant for all? From my vantage point ...

Receiving the sacraments in a private Mass at the Church of St. Sebastian in Rome was a memorable experience for Hayward. “They closed it off for us,” he told CNA. “That was something that was really ...

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

Prior to moving to Rome in August 2021 ... able to underscore the simplicity that he expects from church leaders," writes Christopher White, NCR's Vatican correspondent. During Pope Francis ...

The Jefferson City native and professed monk of the Benedictine Abbey of Our Lady of Clear Creek in Oklahoma has been ...

Frank Anderson, Riccardo Dursi and David Sbaraglia — said they will hold their monthly meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15. The joint ward meeting will take place at St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church on ...

But after a study trip to Turkey—and years of teaching Revelation at my local church in Rome and for conferences—I have come to realize how contextual the book is. Throughout Revelation ...

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

The Rome Rescue Mission is reaching out to the community for help in providing holiday meals to those in need.

The early Church sought to evangelize in the major cultural centers of the first centuries A.D. These centers were Rome, Antioch (Syria), and Alexandria (Egypt). All the rites in use today evolved ...

Before this event many women wore their best church dress to their weddings, which were unlikely to be white due to the color being impractical ... of the wedding veil date all the way back to Rome.