Some 50,000 people visit St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City daily. The 500-year-old structure, with its 448-foot-high dome, ...

The ship was named for the man who built and owned the ship for its first two years, as well as for St. Peter the Apostle, the patron saint of shipbuilders. Ship was loaded with wheat on its ...

"(see top) If Jesus did not establish St. Peter as the foundation rock of the Church, then it is quite strange that Jesus renamed him ROCK in two different languages! Jesus and His Apostles were ...

Tradition has it that Agatha miraculously survived the horrors and cruelties committed against her, and during the night while she was bleeding to death, St. Peter the Apostle appeared to her to ...

THIS AFTERNOON, AS PART OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK, SAINT PETER THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC SCHOOL DONATED ITEMS IT HAD COLLECTED TO VARIOUS LOCAL NON-PROFITS. IT'S PART OF THE SCHOOL'S ANNUAL SOCCKS DAY OR ...

Over the next year, Peter Brandes’ health deteriorated but he kept working — designing and making prints for three art books ...

On 29 June, Vatican City celebrates the Feast of Saint Peter and Saint Paul as a public holiday. Both the Apostle Peter and the Apostle Paul were martyred in Rome, and today, they are “joint patron ...

Besides the Holy Doors, other factors have contributed to the high number of people visiting Rome and other parts of Italy to ...

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 has caused minor damage at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after jumping onto the main altar and knocking over 19th-century candelabra, worth several thousand dollars. Video posted on ...