Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgment,” the imposing fresco of heaven and hell which dominates the Sistine Chapel, is undergoing ...

Casting as an artistic discipline has been around in its current form for decades, despite the proliferation of Zoom and self ...

VATICAN CITY -- Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgment,” the imposing fresco of heaven and hell which dominates the Sistine Chapel, is undergoing its first major restoration in three decades, the Vatican ...

Films about Sts. Thomas More, Thérèse, John Paul II, Giuseppe Moscati and Maximilian Kolbe showcase the heroic virtue of our ...

ROME – One could perhaps summarize Pope Leo XIV’s high profile meeting of cardinals next month with a line from Jerry Reed’s famed song “East Bound and Down”, featured in the 1977 film Smokey and the ...

Monday, Dec. 8, marked the 60th anniversary of the close of the Second Vatican Council. It is an axiom among church historians that it takes a century for a council to be received, so we are almost ...

The Vatican has replaced an underground Catholic bishop in China who has spent years in and out of detention for resisting government religious policies, in a move that drew both official praise and ...

Canadian Indigenous cultural artifacts held at the Vatican for the past century were returned to Canada on Dec. 6. Representatives from the country's First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities were in ...

The Catholic Church has a long history of supporting environmental stewardship. This tradition got a recent boost. The late Pope Francis’ goal of powering the Vatican by 100% solar energy is happening ...

Pilgrims and tourists gather in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican to pray the midday Angelus prayer with Pope Leo XIV Aug. 31, 2025. Credit: CNS photo/Vatican Media VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican ...

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VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The Vatican’s new doctrinal note sharply rejects polygamy and growing Western polyamory, praising monogamy as an exclusive union between one man and one woman. VATICAN CITY (RNS) ...