Italy

“I don’t know if it’s a particular devotion to her as a saint, but she represents, for the church, the church’s embrace of immigrants.”

81-year-old Father Diego Semeraro, from the southern Italian region of Puglia, felt faint due to the strong heat in Rome on the day of the audience.

POMPEII, Italy (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV marked the anniversary of his May 8 election by making a pilgrimage to celebrate Mass at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of the …

A new analysis from Pew Research Center has found that Catholicism has lost more members than it has gained in most of the 24 countries surveyed, while Protestantism has seen …

Lebanese Christians in Debel are celebrating the gift of a new statue of Jesus on the cross after a recent act of desecration by two Israeli soldiers drew global outrage.

“We recall that the Pope is not a political counterpart, but the Successor of Peter, called to serve the Gospel, the truth, and peace.”

“He wanted to live his life fully for himself, he wanted to find joy and what he had discovered, he couldn’t bear for others not to know.”

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, and Father Francesco Ielpo, the custos of the Holy Land, were prevented from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulcher by Israeli …

Eight hundred years after his death, the bones of St. Francis of Assisi have been placed on public display for the first extended public viewing in history, drawing hundreds of …

For the first time in eight centuries, the mortal remains of St. Francis of Assisi are being exposed for an extended period of public veneration.