The all-male autonomous community, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, is no stranger to non-Greeks. Of its 20 ...

The Monastery of Simonos Petra clings almost impossibly to a sheer cliff above the Aegean Sea in northern Greece. Also known ...

Turov hosted solemn celebrations marking the 1020th anniversary of the Turov eparchy of the Belarusian Orthodox Church ...

In his first days as pope, Leo XIV has struck many as an unassuming man of quiet warmth and deeply rooted identity. A visit ...

A church in Dobropillia housed in a former Soviet-era cinema was damaged in a double drone strike this week, officials said.

In February, a fire gutted the massive former St. Wenceslaus Bohemian Catholic Church, once a hub of Croatian spiritual life and culture.

Italian authorities estimated some 100-thousand people were in St. Peter's Square on Sunday as the newly elected Pontiff ...

Tens of thousands of people packed St. Peter’s Square when Pope Benedict XVI gave his final Sunday prayer in 2013 before ...

If one gets the chance to stand atop the Bernini colonnades of St. Peter's Square, it's delightful to discover that the hills and trees of the Roman horizon boast the color palette we see in the works ...

Tbells of Rome tolled on Easter Monday, 2025, as news spread of Pope Francis' death at 88, marking the end of a ...

As Cardinal Robert Prevost's name was announced, a sound of shock rose up. It was something few people had anticipated — the ...