Four years later the Ara Pacis was inaugurated: an 'altar of peace' within marble walls gloriously carved with friezes hailing the emperor, his family ... with paintings by Caravaggio, Tintoretto ...

New tour itineraries for 2025 include St Paul in northern Greece, taking in Philippi and Thessalonica. Corinth is another group option. Other western Europe destinations include Turkey (Izmir and ...

Rome is to celebrate Caravaggio on the occasion of this year's Roman Catholic Jubilee Holy Year with the biggest ever show on the iconic artist at Palazzo Barberini from March 7 to July 6. Enriched by ...

A young Italian couple has gone to court in the Vatican tribunal to challenge a new ban on workplace marriages imposed by the ...

A young Italian couple is going to court in the Vatican tribunal to challenge a new ban on workplace marriages imposed by the ...

The Jubilee Vatican decree lists the corporal and spiritual works and presents many ways to put them into practice.

(THE CONVERSATION) Luce, the anime-inspired official mascot for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee, whose name means “light” in Italian, has been getting a lot of attention on social media. Some ...

Visit the homepage for more information. The feast of the Holy Family presents us with a somewhat different picture of family and family values. The typical representation here is not that of the ...

Except for the resurrection on Easter, Holy Thursday is possibly one of the most important, complex, and profound days of celebration in the Catholic Church. Holy Thursday celebrates the ...

The man was trying to find “Flight Into Egypt,” a century-old oil painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner depicting a biblical scene, the Holy Family’s escape from King Herod’s assassins ...

Holding tridents, swords, spears and small two-headed drums, ash-smeared Hindu holy men marched and rode chariots at sunrise toward the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is in the business of finding family secrets ... And I went, ‘Woah.’ Holy mackerel. I said, ‘Yes it would,’” Gates says, his face mimicking the shock he felt ...