The Colosseum has a bright new look following a restoration using the same travertine marble of ancient Rome to recreate parts of columns from 2,000 years ago. Thousands of Romans once flocked to this arena to watch gladiators battle each other…
Cardinal Dominique Joseph Mathieu of Tehran and Isfahan, Iran has surfaced in Rome after days of uncertainty about his whereabouts following the start of a U.S. and Israel-Iran war. In a brief statement sent to the Belgian Catholic news site,…
The German bishops will formally ask the Vatican to permit lay preaching at Masses, new conference chairman Bishop Heiner Wilmer has announced. Wilmer said the request to Rome to permit lay homilies originated in a 2023 resolution approved by…
In a conversation with the great historian John Tracy Ellis, Baltimore’s Archbishop Michael J. Curley, who had had his share of tussles with the Vatican, once blurted out, “Rome will use you, abuse you, and then throw you away!” It was an…
Pope Leo XIV is expected to summon the world’s cardinals to Rome in early January next year for an extraordinary consistory, according to a Vatican communication circulated this week. Speculation among some Curial circles suggests that the…
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