VATICAN CITY (AP) — Roman Catholic faithful will be able to view St. Peter’s tomb remotely as part of the Vatican’s technological outreach with its far-flung flock during the upcoming Holy Year.

On Tuesday the Vatican announced that after just two weeks since Pope Francis inaugurated the Jubilee of Hope on Christmas ...

This is a very significant beginning,” Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the chief Vatican organizer of the Jubilee Year, said in a ...

During his Jan. 8 general audience, Pope Francis enjoyed a circus performance that included two animatronic elephants, ...

a canopy that sits atop the tomb of St. Peter. "Before, you have to imagine, I think, it was very black. And now we can admire the gold," said Father Enzo Fortunato, the Vatican's communications ...

On foot, by bicycle, and even on horseback, throngs of pilgrims arrive each day at the tomb of St. Peter in the Vatican, the goal of a journey undertaken by many as an act of faith. There are a ...

Pope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving a Peruvian-based Catholic movement, the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae ...

New Starbucks café in South Korea offers rare glimpse of North Korea ...

Holy See and Italian authorities are collaborating to welcome an estimated 30 million people expected to come to Rome ...

In his homily, which coincided with the liturgical reading of the prologue of John’s Gospel, Cardinal Koch reflected on ...