If you're interested in seeing the best churches in Rome, you can't miss a trip to Vatican City to see St. Peter's Basilica. The only religious leader permitted to say mass here is the Pope himself.

As young Catholics flocked to Rome for the Church’s Jubilee of Youth, hopes are be high the weeklong event will stir new ...

Leo’s predecessor, Pope Francis, was a hit with many young people, with a style that put aside pre-prepared speeches to ...

The Lenten station church pilgrimage in Rome dates back to the early fourth century and originally included daily papal processions in which people prayed the Litany of the Saints on the way to ...

It’s a common complaint that Rome’s churches are overwhelming: There are too many, they look too much alike, their gilt and marble often speak more to the eye than the soul. During the Jubilee ...

About 12 miles east, in the historic center of Rome, tourists mill about the 400-year-old baroque Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, admiring the trompe l'oeil frescoes on the ceiling and the relics ...

In advance of this week's consistory, columnist Michael Sean Winters highlights a number of Rome's titular churches with connections to U.S. cardinals.

Close to the Pantheon in the heart of Rome, one of the city’s oldest and most popular ecclesiastical tailor shops — Ditta Annibale Gammarelli — is ready for the Dec. 7, 2024, consistory for ...

The timeless spell of Rome’s oldest churchesAside from a few visiting nuns, we had the place to ourselves. The concentric circles of columns shimmered in silence. “There used to be 22 windows ...

Isabella Murphy, 23, a Rome fellow with The Paideia Institute from California, was one of the many faithful visiting the city’s different churches and their altars of repose on the night of Holy ...