Still bound by vows and his heart's longing to the hills of northeastern Oklahoma, Benedictine Father Patrick Carter will spend the next several years working and ministering about the hills of the ...

ROME (AP) — The converted monastery in the Vatican gardens that served as Pope Benedict XVI’s retirement home is getting some new tenants. Pope Francis signed a note Oct. 1 ordering the Mater ...

ROME – A newly discovered document in the Vatican Archives suggests that a more energetic response from Vatican officials eighty years ago might have prevented the deadly Allied bombing of the ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is “stable,” the official Vatican News agency reported Friday, hours before a special Mass was to be said in Rome for his health. Matteo Bruni, the Vatican’s spokesman, said ...

As Italy grapples with overtourism, a series of ancient trails resurrected by nuns winds through the forgotten landscapes where Benedictine monasticism shaped medieval Europe.

FILE - A view of the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery where Pope Benedict XVI lived after he resigned, inside the Vatican, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. The converted monastery in the Vatican gardens that served ...