According to the New York Times, the late pope often discussed art, which, for him, was a “vital reality” that he placed in contrast to the “throwaway culture” of the glob ...

Mauro Pallotta, an artist known for his paintings of Pope Francis, has been capturing the essence of the Pope since his ...

Francis has broken with recent papal tradition by choosing to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore instead of St ...

Francis X. Rocca covered the Vatican and global religion for The Wall Street Journal. A native of Washington, D.C., he has ...

Six huge multimedia installations at an immersive exhibition are set to enthral the city with the rare opportunity to see 2,000–year–old mosaics, depicting the style and taste of Romans in their ...

The last-minute audience was confirmed while the King and Queen were in Rome, on the four-day state visit to Italy which went ahead. The Holy Father issued an invitation to the King and Queen ...

Two people work at a laptop while sitting in front of some artworks by Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana during Miart on April 3, 2025 in Milan. Photo: Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images.

At 35 years old, Clemente, who had been living in Brussels for 12 years, revealed that his decision to embrace Islam followed deep conversations with a Muslim colleague and extensive research into ...

Ceres is the Roman goddess of agriculture, fertility and motherhood. In Roman religion, she was symbolically connected to the moon, as its phases were thought to correspond with harvests ...

Archaeologists excavating a necropolis in Liternum Archaeological Park in Campania, southern Italy, have uncovered ... researchers believe likely served a religious or cultic function.