A word from the editor in chief: Yesterday evening, I went to the evening prayer held nightly at Santa Maria in Trastevere ... the ceremonial throne that the pope was carried around on.

Ancient Rome blends once more with Catholicism at Santa Maria in Trastevere, the neighbourhood’s main church. Look away from the glittering, 13th-century mosaics and you’ll see 22 hulking ...

in Rome’s Santa Maria in Trastevere Church, June 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) There are 252 cardinals worldwide, and as a body, they are in charge of the Holy See’s affairs in-between ...

ROME — Ambassadors to the Holy See, priests, religious and laity packed Rome's Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere to overflowing Feb. 24, pleading to God for peace in Ukraine. The shock of an ...