While Medieval Conclaves could extend for months and even years, the rules were tweaked by Pope John Paul II and Pope ...

And in the ancient city of Apamea, dozens of treasure hunters with pickaxes and metal detectors have been digging near the site’s famed colonnade. Even amid Syria’s archaeological richness ...

The Parthenon's interior has long been seen as a bright marble space, a new 3D model of the temple shows otherwise.

At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the Temple, in th ...

There was a preexisting fountain in what became the giant oval enclosed by the colonnade, and a giant obelisk that had been pillaged from Egypt by the Romans in ancient times. Both had to be ...

The two are passing through Rome on vacation and will continue to southern Italy. But they are practicing Catholics and were ...

who each night shelter under the square’s majestic colonnade. Often, they use tents distributed by the Dicastery for the Service of Charity, an ancient office of papal charities to which Francis ...

Intrigue, fashion, humility, faith—133 cardinal electors have descended on Rome to choose a new pope and their every move and ...

VATICAN CITY — Royalty, presidents, prime ministers and a legion of faithful paid their last respects to Pope Francis at a funeral Mass in St. Peter's Square to honor his sometimes turbulent papacy.

When our St. Joseph Catholic High School loudspeaker announced in October 1978 that the next conclave chose Pope John Paul II ...