From the blog of Julian Schvindlerman at The Times of Israel ...

With the Holy Year 2025 beginning on Christmas Eve, the Vatican's 2024 Christmas stamps feature the Jubilee message of hope as well as a prayer for peace.

Prayers for peace were central to Pope Francis’ appeals on Sunday as he addressed the faithful gathered in St Peter’s Square ...

A century on, what captures the imagination of Catholics is apparitions of Mother Mary to ordinary women and children ...

A digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica has been created using artificial intelligence to explore one of the world’s most ...

ROME: A delegation of former hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and their relatives met Thursday with Pope Francis and expressed hope that the incoming and outgoing U.S. administrations would work ...

A delegation of former hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and their relatives met Thursday with Pope Francis and expressed hope that the incoming and outgoing U.S. administrations would work together to ...

The freed hostages also said they hoped the incoming Trump administration would work with the outgoing Biden administration ...

Even "eco-nuns." Throughout America -- and indeed, the world -- thousands of religious sisters are daily witnessing to the environmental care commitment urged by Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical, ...

ROME -- A delegation of former hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and their relatives met Thursday with Pope Francis and ...

A group of former hostages previously held by Hamas in Gaza met with Pope Francis to seek support from both current and ...

Mary is a model of the kind of openness to the Holy Spirit that all Christians should have, Pope Francis said.