Bishop John LeVoir and a delegation from the Diocese of New Ulm will depart for Rome on Jan. 10, returning Jan. 18, for an “ad limina apostolorum” visit to the Holy See, the Vatican. Through the ...

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 altar is considered one of the holiest sites in Christianity having been built above the tomb of Saint Peter ... overwhelmed with reverence in St. Peter's Basilica. 'If you believe in ...

At that time: When Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, 'Who do people say that the Son ...

The ministry of antiquities said the discovery of the tomb of Thutmose II, whose wife, Hatshepsut, took the throne after his ...

A man desecrated the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica on Friday by climbing on top of it and throwing six candelabras that ...

Mobile phone footage circulating on social media showed a man standing on the altar under the towering Baldachin canopy.

The perpetrator broke several candelabra, worth tens of thousands of Euros, and then ripped off the covering on Saint Peter's tomb before being tackled by security.

One of the most significant restorations is of Bernini's Baldachin, a canopy that sits atop the tomb of St. Peter. "Before, you have to imagine, I think, it was very black. And now we can admire ...