Faiella, the new priest-in-charge at St. Christopher’s By-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Key Biscayne, says her friends teased ...

To easily explore Milan without staying in the crowded metropolis, set up base at a lesser-known, charming Italian town just ...

Tucked just behind the Pantheon is a tailor with a big claim: They dress the pope.

More than 130 cardinals will be sequestered in the Sistine Chapel to elect the Catholic Church's 267th pontiff after Pope ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa is a Vatican outsider, but his experience in a region sacred to three major religions may ...

It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that put an end to the longest papal election in ...

At Masses across Rome and socioeconomic lines, Catholics prayed the next pope focuses on poverty and peace days before the ...

Antoni Gaudí was at the vanguard of Barcelona’s Modernisme movement. But his magnificent obsession is the still-unfinished ...

The French interior minister’s office said Monday that the suspect had surrendered to police in Italy, without elaborating. Local prosecutor Abdelkrim Grini said Monday that investigators are favoring ...

Francis led the Catholic church for 12 years ... according to Italian officials. Italy's interior minister Matteo Piantedosi said: "We estimate not fewer than 400,000 people between those present ...

ROME, Italy — The Santa Maria Maggiore basilica, which Pope Francis chose as his final resting place, is a fifth-century church located ... surrounding columns. The interior of Santa Maria ...

Each year on Aug. 5 the church liturgical calendar commemorates the dedication of St. Mary Major (in Italian, Santa Maria ...