Vatican City (AFP) – Pope Francis was "happy" to get out and about this week but while his health is improving, it is too soon to confirm his participation in Easter celebrations, the Vatican ...

Jordi Faulí I Oller is currently the head architect of the basilica, the seventh to hold the position. Several architects who ...

Pope Francis has made an unexpected appearance at the Vatican's Palm Sunday mass in St Peter's Square, less than a month after his battle in hospital with double pneumonia. The pontiff was seen in ...

In a statement released on Monday, the Vatican said Pope Francis recognized Gaudí’s “heroic virtues,” which is a step on the path to sainthood. Becoming a saint is a complex process that ...

As Pope Francis maintains an intense schedule as sovereign of Vatican City State and Holy Father to an estimated 1.2 billion Roman Catholics world wide, from apostolic visits to private audiences ...

Pope Francis shared that he is experiencing “healing,” specifically “in my soul and my body,” as he reaches the eighth day of the minimum two-month period of rest and convalescence ...

(The change likely came when Pope Gregory III moved the church’s celebration of saints from May 13 to November 1, to assimilate pagan influences as Christianity was working to win crucial converts.) ...

[St. Gregory the Great, Dial. 4, 39: PL 77, 396; cf. Mt 12:32-36.]" 1472. "To understand this doctrine and practice of the Church, it is necessary to understand that sin has a double consequence.

1. I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides me. 2. You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain. 3. Remember to keep holy the Lord's day. 4. Honor your father ...

1232 The second Vatican Council restored for the Latin Church ... 9 Jn 1:9; 1 Thess 5:5; Heb 10:32; Eph 5:8. 10 St. Gregory Of Nazianzus, Oratio 40,3-4:PG 36,361C. 11 Roman Missal , Easter ...