From people-watching on the Spanish steps to throwing a coin in the iconic Trevi fountain, here are 12 romantic destinations ...

Prime Minister Edi Rama says he wants to give members of the Bektashi, a Shiite Sufi order, their own Vatican-style enclave ...

Rome, Italy—also known as the Eternal City—is home to ancient attractions, delicious gelato, and some of the most incredible ...

Cruise ships turned away, angry locals protesting against visitors, even cities charging tourists to visit. The images and reality of the backlash against mass tourism are becoming increasingly ...

After decades, and controversy, the Vatican has authorized public worship at a shrine in Bosnia, where a once tranquil ...

Jo Kessel cruises around Rome in a vintage Fiat 500, stopping at some of the incredible landmarks featured in the new ...

The Second Vatican Council officially launched the Catholic Church into the ecumenical movement. A reexamination of these texts more than fifty years later suggests areas of critique as well as ...

Vatican II was the catalyst for a significant realignment of ministerial life in the Catholic Church. Although the council did not undertake a thoroughgoing revision of episcopal or presbyteral ...

From Our Lady of the World’s Fair: Bringing Michelangelo’s Pietà to Queens in 1964, by Ruth D. Nelson, a Three Hills book ...

VIENNA (Austria) - UN nuclear watchdog IAEA holds annual General Conference PICTURE. VIDEO. LIVE VIDEO. (To 20) PARIS (France) - World Space Business Week organised by Novaspace (To 20) ...

While Pope Francis was out of town in Asia and Oceania, a mini-tempest erupted in Rome after a French court appeared to ...

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE – On Day One of Pope Francis’ visit to the Asia-Pacific, I called him “Your Holiness”, unsure of how ...