Archaeology buffs might find the Basilica di San Clemente interesting as it's a veritable nesting doll of churches. It's a second century pagan temple, underneath a fourth-century church ...

Carol Quillen, the president and CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, champions the power of place to connect ...

Messina and I were standing in a sepulchral stretch of the Aqua Anio Vetus, one of the superbly crafted aqueducts that once channeled water into ancient Rome, built beginning in 272 B.C. and dry ...

The Archdiocese of Cebu announced that the Oslob church, which is almost 180 years old, has been named an affiliate church of the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major located in Rome, Italy. "As an ...

The recent restoration of the funerary monument of Urban VIII is displayed to journalists inside St. Peter’s Basilica at the ...

The Maria Clementina Sobieska Memorial in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. Credit: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons After James III’s death and royal funeral in Rome in ...

In another surprise visit by Pope Francis early Saturday afternoon, Vatican sources confirmed that the Pontiff visited the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome and stopped to pray before the ...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis, continuing his recovery from life-threatening pneumonia, made a surprise visit on April 12 to his favourite Roman basilica ... five weeks in Rome’s Gemelli hospital ...

It was a fourth unscheduled appearance in recent days for the 88-year-old pope -- including one at the Vatican's Saint Peter's Basilica on ... 23 after five weeks in Rome's Gemelli hospital ...