Rome is a splendour of religious riches that attracts over 30 million visitors annually, and 2025 is a particularly significant year for this cradle of Catholicism. The Vatican is celebrating a ...

VATICAN CITY — A U.S. archbishop caused a stir recently when he suggested that the Catholic Church should relocate its governance away from Rome in order to be more efficient. However partially tongue ...

ROME – While Pope Francis was out of town in Asia and Oceania, a mini-tempest erupted in Rome after a French court appeared to assert that France, not Italy or the Vatican, actually owns not only the ...

ROME (AP) -- Visitors can no longer use the splendid entrance at Rome's Basilica of St. Mary Major -- it's sealed off because drunks and lovers had made it a hangout. In Florence, Catholic officials ...