The visit to Rome’s SOS Children’s Village came as part of the Pope’s commitment to the Year of Mercy Continuing his monthly Year of Mercy visits to people in vulnerable…
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Francis celebrated a canonisation Mass in St Peter’s Square on Sunday The seven new saints of the Church were holy not because of their own efforts but because of “the…
Italian police have arrested a man who desecrated several statues in a Catholic church in Rome over a two-day span. A man identified as a 39-year old from Ghana, began…
The Pope and Archbishop Justin Welby signed the declaration at a Vespers service in Rome Pope Francis joined the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, in calling for Christian unity during a…
is Monday morning, the Vatican is getting used to the idea of a new Mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi, a member of the protest Five Star Movement, founded seven years…
On August 14, 1480, a massacre was perpetrated on a hill just outside the city of Otranto, in southern Italy. Eight hundred of the city’s male inhabitants were taken to…
A priest and a rabbi walk into a hospital . . . It sounds like the opening of a joke, but that moment marks the beginning of my journey toward…
The Italian saint’s remains will be taken from the southern town of San Giovanni Rotondo on 3rd February to be displayed in his home town of Pietrelcina in Benevento province. He will…
Full Question Is the Vatican really a country? Answer Yes. The history of the Vatican City State is colorful, controversial, and complex. The world’s smallest country, at just 109 acres,…
The Holy Father and his entourage boarded the Alitalia plane from Rome’s Fiumicino Airport airport around 8am local time (7am GMT) to land in Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in…
