For over 600 years carpets from Turkey and Iran have been used in Catholic ceremony and religious paintings by artists, ...

Whether you’re Catholic or not, it’s hard to argue with the fact that St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is an amazing feat ... it has plenty of space to display priceless paintings, sculpture, ...

Pope Francis, whose ministry was shaped in the barrios of Buenos Aires, had a genius for the punchy and memorable turn of ...

At over 23,000 square feet, St. Peter’s Basilica is home to ... a place “where statues, mosaics, paintings and inscriptions were displayed as relics of the venerated and lost church.” ...

Appearing publicly in street clothes for the first time as pontiff, Pope Francis went into St. Peter’s Basilica to pray and greet the faithful. transcript “What’s your name?” ...

On his way back to St. Peter's Basilica from where he had emerged, Francis blessed a rosary and offered candy to a boy who greeted him. The Argentinian pope is entering his fourth week of ...

Tombstone of the last members of the House of Stuart, St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican (1819), Work of Antonio Canova (1757–1822). Credit: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons ...

The pope, 88, arrived at the basilica to pray and greet visitors. Pope Francis made a short and unannounced visit Saturday to St. Peter's Basilica to pray before this evening's Easter vigil and ...

On Sunday, April 6, the Fifth Sunday of Lent, St. Peter’s Basilica will display the revered “Veronica’s Veil,” a cloth that, according to tradition, was used to wipe the face of Jesus on ...