At place where Jesus was said to have spent his last night before crucifixion, devout Christians and volunteers keep alive a ...

By Isabella H. de Carvalho and Xavier Sartre On Thursday, October 23, Pope Leo XIV participated in various events with King ...

Come October, monks and nuns are busy harvesting olives at the Mount of Olives and the Gethsemane garden — where, according ...

In Ways of Confucius and of Christ: From Prime Minister of China to Benedictine Monk, Lu recounts the details of his ...

The Catholic Church is celebrating 150 years of ministry in Oklahoma with two sesquicentennial Masses, at St. Gregory's Abbey, and the Rother shrine ...

In an ancient monastery behind huge medieval battlements in a hilltop town just south of Rome, 10 monks are striving to keep alive a 1,600-year-old spiritual tradition against increasing odds.

Long before cloud servers and computers, medieval Catholic monks preserved the intellectual inheritance of the ancient world by handwriting Greek and Latin manuscripts. Centuries later, the Vatican ...

Empress Eugénie’s brooch — a piece of jewelery that reflected her religious faith — was stolen in a daring, daylight heist at ...

The Vatican’s digitization efforts are focused on their one-of-a-kind historic manuscript collection as well as some of its oldest books, incunabula books printed during the earliest period of ...

This isn’t the first time a British monarch will have met the Pope – the late Queen Elizabeth met several, starting as a ...