Some 50,000 people visit St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City daily. The 500-year-old structure, with its 448-foot-high dome, ...

"The real crime and problem with the sanctions is that they don't hurt people in power," he told the National Catholic Reporter Jan. 31. "Assad was never hurt by the sanctions. It's people in the ...

They will meet Pope Francis at the Vatican and celebrate the Catholic ... leading to widespread national protests. It promotes the right to good, clean and fair food for all, and strives to ...

Pope Francis will hold the next few days of meetings in rooms at his Vatican residence while sick with bronchitis, the Vatican said Thursday. “Due to bronchitis, from which he is suffering at ...