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Microsoft also announced a collaboration with the city of Rome to develop ‘Julia,’ an AI-based virtual assistant that will ...

Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA Pope Urban VIII commissioned Bernini in 1624 to design and build the enormous canopy over the Papal Altar of the Confession, located directly over the tomb of St. Peter ...

Unless you have looked at a picture to prepare yourself, at first sight the tomb of the Blessed Carlo Acutis, which stands in ...

For Francis, the synodal process was always more important than any decisions the synod made. Synodality requires a spiritual ...

Information on the outstanding medieval church of St Peter & St Paul, Appledore, Kent, with a church history, beautiful ...

The Diocese of Brooklyn will make its presence felt in the Jubilee Year, as nearly 200 people will set off on pilgrimages to ...

who are entrusted with hearing confessions in St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis said that while many people come to the Vatican “to pray at the tomb of the first of the apostles, to confirm ...