As the subway line continues onward past the Colosseum, it will run underneath more of the world’s most important cultural ...

NPR has been following the story of three octogenarian Austrian nuns who broke out of a nursing home and back into their old convent. Now, they're hoping for a deal with the Vatican so they can stay.

The Jubilee Year of Hope concludes Jan. 6, but the graces will continue. Pope Francis urged the faithful to make a pilgrimage ...

Rome opened two new metro stations after decades of careful excavation, featuring newly discovered artifacts and ...

This undated photograph shows a young Pope Francis, then Jorge Bergoglio, with his family. Back row, from left: his brother ...

In 2018, German artist Michael Triegel asked a homeless man in Rome to pose for a drawing, thinking that he would make an ideal model for St. Peter if he ever needed to paint the first pope.

Christmas carols in every language and culture are expressions of how music can convey “feelings and emotions, even the deepest movements of the soul,” Pope Leo XIV said after listening, clapping and ...

Many visitors expect calm beauty inside the Vatican, surrounded by marble saints and balanced Renaissance forms. Few ...

The nuptials had been kept a closely guarded secret, but it emerged last week that the couple tied the knot after they were ...

Cardinal Dolan, who turned 75 last February, reportedly submitted his resignation as required under church law, though Pope ...

In his papal bull proclaiming the Jubilee Year, the late Pope Francis emphasized the theme of hope, a much-needed virtue in a ...

Leo seems to be understanding that his ministry must be open to the world — a world that does not understand Italian.