On Tuesday the Vatican announced that after just two weeks since Pope Francis inaugurated the Jubilee of Hope on Christmas ...

More than half a million pilgrims crossed the threshold of the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica in the first two weeks after ...

Over 545,000 pilgrims have crossed the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica, marking a strong start to Pope Francis's Holy Year ...

Sister Simona Brambilla was appointed as the prefect of a Vatican office that oversees religious orders, but she may not be ...

Sister Simona Brambilla will head the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

Over half a million people have already passed through the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica since Pope Francis opened it on ...

The iconic sculpture’s journey from the Vatican to the 1964 World’s Fair in New York was a monumental feat of faith and ...

Sacred Heart was established in the 1920s by the city’s then-Polish population. St. Peter Church was established in 1851 as the city’s first Roman Catholic parish by Irish immigrants.

Pope Francis has declared 2025 to be a Jubilee year for the Catholic Church. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Claire Giangravé from the Religion News Service about the tradition.

Catholics will be able to obtain the indulgence on pilgrimages to any holy place of the jubilee, those churches designated ...