Michelangelo’s magnificent altar piece at the Sistine Chapel, Vatican the Last Judgment. My carvings on wood attempt to rejuvenate the visceral and evocative images that Michelangelo so ...

The Vatican in collaboration with the Camille and Sandy Kress Project launched the first in a series of conferences titled “Jews and Catholics on Ethics: A Light to the Nations” this week ...

The abuse took place between 2007 and 2012 in the Pius X Pre-Seminary, which houses altar boys who serve Mass in St Peter's Basilica, sometimes for the pope, and are thinking of becoming priests.

Today will be a dry and settled day with a good deal of sunshine throughout the day. A few patches of cloud will develop at times, however. Winds will be moderate. Tonight Tonight will be dry and ...

“Human fragility has the power to make us more lucid about what endures and what passes, what brings life and what kills,” Pope Francis wrote in a letter to the editor in chief of Corriere ...

The Church - stripped of its ornaments, the altar bare, and with the door of the empty tabernacle standing open - is as if in mourning. In the fourth century the Apostolic Constitutions described ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- During his long and fruitful pontificate ... Like the “countless pilgrims who continually come to this basilica and ask for his intercession at the altar where his body rests,” ...