The stunned crowd could only balk as the man was quickly torn away from the altar by “plainclothes police officers” stationed at the basilica and escorted off of the grounds.

As per the report, the man climbed the altar steps, dropped his pants, and urinated on the sacred site. The Vatican gendarmes ...

Watch live as Pope Leo XIV presides over a Mass for the Jubilee of Catechists in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican.

Visitors at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City were shocked on Friday morning as an unidentified man reportedly urinated on ...

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said that Carlo Acutis spoke of Jesus with a “radiant" and "smiling" face.

Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims gathered inside St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Aug. 20, 2025, after his weekly general audience. The pope visited them at the conclusion of the audience to offer his ...

Pope Leo XIV has criticized how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

Pope Francis' Christmas Eve Mass will start two hours earlier, the Vatican said on Thursday, allowing even the limited number of people who can attend to get home by a 10 p.m. Italian curfew to ...