Cardinal Mauro Gambetti presided over a penitential rite of reparation at the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica following a ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Four hundred years after its creation, the famed baldachin that sits above the tomb of St. Peter in Rome will be restored ahead of the 2025 Jubilee year in what experts described ...

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica and vicar general of the Pope for Vatican City, presided Oct. 13 over a penitential rite of reparation at the main altar of the church ...

The man climbed the altar and “urinated under the stunned gaze of hundreds of tourists,” according to the Roman newspaper ...

(11 Jan 2024) The Vatican on Thursday unveiled plans for a yearlong restoration of the monumental baldachin, or canopy, over the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica, pledging to complete the work on ...

The stunned crowd could only balk as the man was quickly torn away from the altar by “plainclothes police officers” stationed ...

The pope's remarks came during an audience at the Vatican Oct. 6 with members of the board of directors of the Knights of Columbus.

A man reportedly urinated on the Altar of Confession at St. Peter’s Basilica on Friday before security removed him from the Vatican landmark. The man allegedly climbed onto the altar and relieved ...

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica and vicar general of the pope for Vatican City, presided Oct. 13 ...