Artists and cultural figures must be "custodians of the beatitudes," embracing their vocation to create beauty, reveal truth ...

Parish in 1997, NCR uncovered the groundbreaking ministry of Fr. James Callan, a priest whose daring vision would soon shake ...

A view of the altar where Card. José Tolentino de Mendonça, prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Culture and Education, presided over a mass for the Jubilee of Artists and ...

Elijah’s confrontation with false gods culminates in a consuming fire that devours a sacrificial bull and the altar itself (1 Kings 18:38). Here, fire affirms God’s supremacy, leaving nothing ...

The Vatican allows Catholic marriages to take place in the Chapel of the Choir in St. Peter’s Basilica and in the small city ...

A Virginia Catholic bishop says the desecration of the main altar in St. Peter’s Basilica on Friday points to a larger ...

Named to lead New York's vast Catholic diocese, Edward Egan was elevated to cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 2001. Look back ...

A video capturing the incident shows the individual jumping onto the altar, removing the altar cloth, and kicking six gold ...

Thanking members of the military and the police for their service, Pope Francis asked them to be on guard against seeing ...

The man tried to rip off the cloth, as well as kicking down antique candelabra worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.

A man has caused minor damage at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after jumping onto the main altar and knocking over 19th ...

A man was arrested at St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican on Friday after he climbed onto the main altar and knocked six large ...