When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

Under a complicated series of international agreements, some reaching back to the 17th century, France administers a total of ...

A row over whether France or Italy owns Rome's iconic Spanish Steps has caused controversy and reopened old wounds between ...

These rents assure upkeep of the five French churches in Rome, including Trinità dei Monti church atop the Spanish Steps. The ...

My apartment—formerly a godless zone for only the profane, not the sacred—now feels holy thanks to the scents of cold stone, ...

After decades, and controversy, the Vatican has authorized public worship at a shrine in Bosnia, where a once tranquil ...

Overlooking Tuscany’s Casentino Valley in Italy, Father Massimo Fusarelli, minister general of the Franciscan Friars Minor ...

With a surname like mine, you get used to misspellings and mispronunciations. “One ‘t’,” we wearily explain to people aware ...

Salvatore Micalef presents himself as a bishop and the patriarch of an international Catholic prelature called “Saints Peter ...

Rome has been around for almost three thousand years and yet carries all that weight of history with a dolce vita lightness ...

Italy's government is currently busy working on its 2025 budget ... New ‘tourist trains’ link Rome with Assisi and Alba Two ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include Johann Philipp Fabricius arriving in India, Carlo Spinola being ...