VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Tuesday formally inaugurates the 2025 Holy Year, reviving an ancient church tradition encouraging the faithful to make pilgrimages to Rome, amid new security ...

President-elect Donald Trump announced his pick for Ambassador to the Holy See via his social media site, Truth Social, Friday afternoon. Brian Burch is the president of Catholic Vote, a political ...

Early Friday afternoon, President-Elect Donald Trump announced his pick for United States Ambassador to the Holy See. In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “I am pleased to announce that Brian Burch ...

President-elect Donald Trump announced Dec. 20, 2024, that he was appointing Brian Burch, president of the political advocacy group CatholicVote, as the next Holy See ambassador. Burch is pictured in ...

A YouTuber recorded himself travelling out into the desert after spotting an 'ancient symbol' on Google Earth and seeing what he could find there. After locating the rocks on a remote plateau ...

The city of Rome is preparing for the Holy Year with hundreds of roadworks and restoration projects. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) (OSV News) — Signs around the Eternal City declare “Roma si trasforma” — ...

If the weather is clear where you live on Tuesday evening (Dec. 17), look low above the east-northeast horizon at around 8:00 p.m. local standard time and you'll see the waning gibbous moon ...

Pope Francis presides over the Holy Mass at Place d'Austerlitz, during his apostolic journey in Ajaccio, on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, France, Dec 15, 2024. (Photo: REUTERS/Remo ...

Pope Francis and the Vatican will open five spiritual portals starting Christmas Eve that are part of Roman Catholic Church rituals that date back to 1300. The Jubilee Year rituals, which involve ...

In the letter, published in the Chicago Catholic, Cupich said “the norm established by [the] Holy See for the universal Church and approved by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is for ...

Pope Francis will open five Holy Doors in a long-standing catholic tradition and will introduce a never-before-seen ritual. Credits: Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia ...