With the upcoming canonization of its first millennial saint, the Catholic Church has turned to police in Italy to ...

The “Caravaggio 2025” exhibition in Rome represents a symbolic return of Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, to the ...

More than 20,000 pilgrims from 90 countries — including patients, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists, and other ...

‘St. Francis in Ecstacy’ is the first example of the artist's religious work in Rome. | Daniel Ibañez/EWTN New The works created specifically for this church and those of Santa Maria del ...

The impressive dome ceiling in Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome.Credit: Getty Images However ... in the interior of Santa Maria Maggiore church.Credit: iStock Upon entering, there’s ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from the Gemelli hospital in Rome Pope Francis ... the hospital to briefly stop at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, which has an icon of the Virgin Mary ...

Our list of 10 contemporary art controversies provides examples of each, as it examines the efficacy of boundary-pushing in ...

The sculptural altarpiece in the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome has been cited by art historians as having sexual connotations true to descriptions from her own writings.

The pope, in a white Fiat 500 L, was driven past the Vatican and on to Santa Maria Maggiore, the Rome church where he stops to pray before and after trips. He was then seen arriving back at the ...

(CNN) — Pope Francis was released from Rome ... Casa Santa Marta, for the next two months. Before returning to his residence on Sunday, the pope went to the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore ...