Archaeologists have uncovered charred sycamore wood preserved for 2,600 years. The growth rings inside may allow researchers to date the destruction to within a single decade.
The Oscar-winning actor and his wife, Camila Alves McConaughey, were welcomed by Pope Leo during a Vatican visit.
The composer describes the work as an offering to the Church — a way of giving back, through his professional gifts, the love he has received from it. “Take heart! I have overcome the world.”
Children from Uganda, the Holy Land, and Italy performed a “Canticle of Peace” for Pope Leo XIV, who told them beauty in music is a path toward God.
Pope Leo's message offers five refreshing ways to see old age — not as an ending, but as a season still full of hope.
The Vatican Secretary of State warns of escalation in Ukraine, calls for renewed Iran talks, and says the Holy See’s position on Gaza can be summed up in six words.
The Camino is not always beautiful. Sometimes it is flat, grey, and very long. That is not a design flaw.
There are many traditions that claim various locations where the "Apostle to the Apostles" lived out her final days before being called home.
Six quotes from Global Nobel Laureates Assembly on how to address AI and warfare.
From an image said to have been painted by St. Luke to an icon that followed a Grand Master into battle, Malta’s Marian images carry two millennia of devotion.
The heat slows you down, the crowds thin out inside, and the silence of a cathedral in July does something to you that no beach can replicate.
With the recent addition of a Polish mosaic, this spiritual labyrinth serves as an immense open-air shrine uniting the diverse cultures of Catholic peoples.
Stretching nearly 2,000 feet across a Lebanese hillside, the world's largest rosary is becoming an extraordinary place of prayer.
Working at the Vatican creates some extraordinary careers that you might not have thought existed.
A leader of The Papal Foundation, Ward Fitzgerald tells how he "stopped being a businessman, and started being a Catholic who happens to be a businessman …”
The Holy See announced on July 6 that the upcoming event, convened by Pope Leo XIV, will take place October 7–14 to reflect on the legacy of “Amoris laetitia.”
The feast of St. James is July 25. If you are thinking about walking to Compostela, you should know what most people get wrong before they start.
