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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.
Rome's mayor, police chief and the Pope's right-hand man have all refused to grant former SS captain Erich Priebke a church funeral in the city where he participated in one of the worst massacres ...
Italy agreed Thursday to a Vatican plan to turn a 430-hectare (1,000-acre) field north of Rome, once the source of ...
ROME — Like elsewhere in Europe, museums and art galleries closed in Italy in the spring and again in the fall to contain the spread of COVID-19, leaving virtual tours as the best option for art ...
The 'Jubilee of Youth' – when the Vatican invites Catholics aged 18 to 35 to the seat of the global Church's power – has ...
Pope Leo XIV presided over a final mass in Rome for over one million young people on Sunday, the culmination of a youth ...
Hundreds of thousands of young Catholics poured into a vast field on Rome’s outskirts Saturday for the weekend highlight of ...
ROME — After Italy’s coronavirus lockdown forced churches to suspend Mass, Don Andrea Vena, a priest in the Venetian beach resort of Bibione, had to find some other way to reach out to his flock. So ...
Roman Catholic Catholic Church in Rome cancels all Masses, announces day of fasting and prayer By Caleb Parke Fox News Published March 9, 2020 1:30pm EDT Flipboard ...
ROME – As if Italy hasn’t been through enough since a sweeping national lockdown was imposed March 8, and with more than 30,000 Italians dead from the coronavirus, Romans awoke around 5:00 a.m ...
It was either a generous act of charity - or an acute attack of conscience. An anonymous benefactor has left €36,000 (£31,625) stashed in the confessional box of a church near the Vatican in Rome.