A new tour of the Vatican Gardens at the pope’s summer palace in Castel Gandolfo is opening in spring 2025 for jubilee pilgrims who wish to escape the crowds in Rome for a day and immerse themselves ...

Here are the highlights. The unlocking of the Holy Door at St. Peter's Basilica on Christmas Eve by Pope Francis — the event that kicked off the 2025 Jubilee — heralded the start of a historic ...

The opening of the new tour marks the 10th anniversary of the publication of Laudato Si’ and the 800th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi’s “Canticle of the Sun.” Signs have been placed ...

The Vatican releases photos of the pope’s meeting with the Paraguayan president showing the pope smiling and using a cane to walk. Pope Francis arrives for a consistory at St. Peter's Basilica ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Nick Ut, center, flanked by Kim Phuc, left, holds the ‘Napalm Girl,’ his Pulitzer ...

With both Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day falling on Jan. 20, people across the city celebrated many different ways.

Pope Francis’ arm, tied up in a white sling, was visible in photos taken on the morning of ... and praying the Angelus with pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square. Biden last met with Pope Francis ...

The Holy Doors of the basilicas of Rome, the beautiful churches, the countryside around Assisi, the gelato and the pasta and ...

While many people around the world seek a blessing for their animals around the Oct. 4 feast of St. Francis of Assisi, in ...

She had been a professed member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for 71 ... A $100 gift allows us to present award-winning photos of Catholic life in our neighborhoods.

Braving frigid temperatures Friday, more than three dozen people gathered for St. Francis University's March on the Mountain ...

There's a tranquility to St. Francis that we all need right now,” Pasadena Waldorf School teacher Blair Manzke tells PEOPLE ...