For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, ...

As Europe buckles under a punishing heat wave, residents and summer travelers are struggling to find relief. Here’s how and ...

The Vatican launches a new campaign to boost donations from the faithful with an American-style publicity pitch, an effort ...

Leo celebrated Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, marking the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, during which he gave the pallium woolen stole to 54 new archbishops.

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday celebrated a special feast day traditionally used by the Catholic Church to drum up donations from the ...

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More than 1,800 years ago, the thousands of pieces formed colorful frescoes that covered the walls of a luxurious villa in ...

Saint Peter’s Basilica is getting a makeover as part of the current jubilee, the holy year celebrated by the Catholic church every 25 years. A huge programme of improvements beg ...

Archaeologists first uncovered the Roman “jigsaw” in 2021 on a site in Central London under development. The fragments of 20 walls told archaeologists that someone had saved these pieces after ...

A remarkable archaeological discovery in the heart of London has unearthed one of the most extensive collections of painted Roman walls - or frescoes - ever found in the city, as Willem Marx reports.