Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Catholic patriarch of Jerusalem, finally took possession on May 1 of his assigned titular church in Rome after having postponed the ceremony due to the war ...

A marathon will link the cities of Jerusalem and Rome between April 23 and May 27, thus coinciding with Pope Benedict XVI’s May 8-15 visit to Israel. The initiative, organized by the John Paul II ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz reaffirmed Berlin's support for Israel during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial ...

Two monuments bathed in white and blue symbolized triumph over attempts to disperse and humiliate the Jews and even wipe them off the face of the earth. (JTA) — When Rome lit up a landmark this week ...

Perhaps because the large, white outdoor papal throne was already in place for Saturday night’s ecumenical prayer vigil on Sept. 30, just ahead of the opening of the Synod on Synodality, or because as ...

ROME, March 9 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he would ask Italy to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of the country, obtaining immediate support from Italian ...

This is the year of Colosseum chic, what with "Gladiator" reviving Hollywood's long-moribund genre of the toga epic and winning five Oscars, including best picture. What's more, officials in Rome have ...

As the procession of churchmen wound slowly through Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, the elderly, bespectacled Anglican prelate stopped before the Roman Catholic altar, knelt and murmured a brief ...

Christians remember Herod the Great as a murderous tyrant, and so do Jews. According to the Gospel of Matthew, when Herod heard that a rival king of the Jews had been born in a stable, he sent out his ...

I'm delighted to report that my Hoover colleague (and emeritus professor at Cornell), Barry Strauss, will be guest-blogging this week about this new book of his. Here's the publisher's summary: A new ...

‘We are going through the most difficult moments in our history,’ Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa said at the May 1 Mass. Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa gives the homily at a Mass in which he took ...