Saint Peter’s Basilica is getting a makeover as part of the current jubilee, the holy year celebrated by the Catholic church every 25 years. A huge programme of improvements began several months ...

As is the tradition, Pope Leo XIV will celebrate Mass in St. John Lateran Basilica, the pope’s cathedral as bishop of Rome, on Sunday, June 22.

PARIS (OSV News) -- The famed Sacré-Coeur, or Basilica of the Sacred Heart, which Émile Zola called a 'stone host placed on the open wound of the city,' celebrates the 150th anniversary of the laying ...