Antoni Gaudí, architect of the Sagrada Família, is one step closer to becoming a saint after the Vatican recognized him for ...

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You Orta see Italy- it’s a big year for the land of romance, so Sarah Marshall picks her Italian highlights and urges ...

A commonly-used design for the Vatican flag, flown frequently even at the Vatican itself, contains a small but easily-noticed ...

In this episode of “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle and ... an announcement made by the bishop of Lourdes that the mosaics on the doors of the Lourdes Shrine by alleged abuser Marko ...

These mosaics have been the subject of a silent yet furious underground battle in the Vatican, between those who wanted to cover them, hide them forever or dismantle them, and those who wished to ...

(photo: Vitor Oliveira / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Hannah Brockhaus/CNA World April 2, 2025 While a Catholic shrine in Lourdes, France, announced on Monday it is covering mosaics by ...

VATICAN CITY — The sanctuary of Lourdes, one of the world's most popular Catholic pilgrimage sites, began on Monday (March 31) to cover up a series of mosaics made by a prominent priest with ...

The Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes said mosaics by Marko Rupnik on the doors ... The allegations, which Rupnik denies, are the subject of a Vatican inquiry. Excerpts from Verschuren’s letters ...