For a particularly meaningful way to visit Rome’s major churches - and to sidestep the crowds - try following in the ...

Here are five gorgeous churches that may offer a less-crowded experience. By David Laskin It’s a common complaint that Rome’s churches are overwhelming: There are too many, they look too much ...

ROME (AP) — The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the ...

Another popular tradition is that of visiting seven different churches and their altars of repose — a tradition that is believed to have begun in Rome during the first centuries of the Church.

All of today's links focus on Rome's titular churches assigned to American clerics. All cardinals are assigned a titular church as an honorary symbol of the cardinal's ties to the pope as bishop ...

In any case, indulgences and jubilee years have remained enormously popular and profitable for the Catholic Church and for the city of Rome. RASCOE: So how is Rome preparing for all these pilgrims ...

AGNES CRAWFORD: We're really on the summit of the Esquiline Hill, which is one of the seven of the ancient hills on which Rome was founded. SHERLOCK: The church has special resonance for Pope ...