The Vatican is among the top European tourist destinations. Now, visitors will have a rare chance to enter temples that are ...

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I think we have to look at the question very much from … the Spirit. ‘Is the Spirit calling women?’” said Sister Mary Theresa ...

Pope Francis announced he would create 21 new cardinals Dec. 8, including a 99-year-old former nuncio and the 44-year-old ...

On the one-year anniversary of the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, Pope Francis expressed his solidarity with all those ...

The study groups are investigating questions such as how to improve seminary education, ministry to LGBTQ Catholics and ...

Participants in the Synod on Synodality spent two days before the start of its final session in a closed retreat that ended ...

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Look up tonight for a chance to see the Draconid meteor shower. It’s expected to peak at 11 p.m. ET and will likely be on the ...

Pope Francis criticised on Monday what he called the "shameful inability" of the international community to end the war in ...

Palestinian militants in Gaza have fired a barrage of rockets into Israel as mourners marked the anniversary of the Oct. 7 ...