At the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, David Foote oversees the Catholic Studies Rome program offered to Catholic Studies majors and minors each spring semester. The university also offers programs that take place in the fall and in January. “One of
This morning, Father Patrick Briscoe, editor of Our Sunday Visitor, arrived in Rome to pay his last respects to the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and attend his funeral. He writes: “My first stop was Santa Sabina, the mother church of the
Christian humility implies placing one's desire to maintain appearances or selfish interests aside and instead putting the well-being of others first, said Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of San Diego.
Celebrating a Mass of Thanksgiving at St. Patrick's Church, official home of the U.S.
Pope Francis has named a U.S. Jesuit, Father Mark A. Lewis, to be the next rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
Father Lewis, 62, has taught church history at the Jesuit-run university since 2017 and has served as academic vice rector
Msgr. Thomas W. Powers, vicar general of the Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut, has been named rector of the Pontifical North American College, the U.S. seminary in Rome.
His appointment by the Vatican Congregation for Clergy was announced March 30 and goes into effect
U.S. Cardinal James Harvey, archpriest of Rome's Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, presided over a thanksgiving Mass to celebrate 100 years of Paulist ministry to the English-speaking community of Rome.
After leading the opening prayer, the 72-year-old native of Milwaukee described
Managing editor Scott Warden reflects on why the Church celebrates the feast of the Chair of St. Peter on February 22. The Church does not possess an actual chair used by the first pope. Instead, the feast celebrates the authority Christ himself
Publisher Scott Richert recently had an experience in Rome that gave him a sense of being both within and outside of time, as only experiences of faith can: “Not for nothing is Rome called the Eternal City, a place where history literally
In 13 parishes in the Diocese of Rome, 280 volunteers over the age of 65 dedicate part of their week to visiting their older peers, helping them with shopping and getting them to doctors' appointments as well as helping with the liturgies
After 20 years of restoration work and millions in funding from benefactors worldwide, the unveiling of the Pontifical Sanctuary of the Holy Stairs in Rome was supposed to be a grand, celebratory moment slated for this spring, in time for Holy Week