Two matters, both of them of greatest importance, are before us. On the one hand, there is the Reformation, a decisive turning point in church history. What is more, it is not merely an event of past ...

Rome is a splendour of religious riches that attracts over 30 million visitors annually, and 2025 is a particularly significant year for this cradle of Catholicism. The Vatican is celebrating a ...

Visitors admire the marble sculptural group “Ecstasy of Saint Teresa” made between 1647 and 1652, by Baroque architect and sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, in the Cornaro Chapel of Rome’s Saint Mary of ...

I can see my breath inside the church of St. Balbina. Some 1,700 years ago this was prime real estate, just off Rome’s main thoroughfare, the Via Appia, an easy stroll to the Circus Maximus or the ...