The relic dispayed just above the tomb of St. Peter will be accessible for public viewing until Dec. 8, the solemnity of the ...

cofounder of the Family of Mary, was reached by a three-judge ecclesiastical tribunal Sept. 18 and approved by Pope Francis Oct. 11. The decision was then formalized by the Vatican’s Dicastery ...

(THE CONVERSATION) For over 40 years, six people from Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, have claimed to see and speak with the Virgin Mary. For almost as long, hordes of pilgrims have ...

Initially, it was founded as a benevolent religious association to help churches persecuted by communism during the Cold War when many priests behind the Iron Curtain ended up in prison.

Some believe the basilica on Vatican Hill was built over the martyred ... It is the only visual depiction of the Memoria Petri, the structure that once encased Peter’s tomb.

On a barge on Rome's River Tiber, a stone's throw from the Vatican, Loan Rocher was "ordained ... sanction according to US "bishop" Bridget Mary Meehan. She belongs to the group organising ...

Focus Features Share Just in time for the stretch run of the presidential election campaign comes the intriguing and beautifully acted but overwrought and pulpy Vatican mystery drama “Conclave ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Vatican City and Rome A monthlong meeting ... said the Rev. Bridget Mary Meehan, who was ordained a bishop in the association in 2009 and performed the ...

A major Vatican meeting gathering clerics and laity ... instead referring the matter to a future study group. Bridget Mary Meehan, an American co-founder of the Association of Roman Catholic ...

The Vatican announced Tuesday that it has renewed ... from churches and have replaced images of Christ and the Virgin Mary with images of President Xi Jinping, according to a recent report from ...