Sometime between the 4th and 14th centuries, a Roman palace housed dozens of popes for hundreds of years. It existed long ...

Discover why Vatican City, the heart of the Catholic Church, remains an independent city-state entirely surrounded by Rome.

The day after the Lateran liturgy, the Anglicans had a dinner and discussion with Cardinal Walter Kasper, a previous head of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, and before the scandal ...

Pope Francis has made a subtle change in the past year which emphasizes the truth of the feast we mark on Nov. 9 — namely that St. John Lateran, not St. Peter’s in the Vatican, is the ...

The area around St John Lateran is being spruced up ahead of the Jubilee, a year-long event starting in December that is expected to attract more than 30 million pilgrims and tourists to the ...

Most people think the Pope's church is St. Peter's Basilica. But as the Bishop of Rome, his actual seat is in a church on the other side of Rome called St. John Lateran.

Pope Leo XIV waves upon his arrival at the Arch Basilica of St. John Lateran where he will presides over a Mass and takes possession of the Roman Cathedra, formalising his role as Bishop of Rome ...

There is a proverb attributed as an African proverb, although its exact origin is unclear: “If you want to go fast, go alone.

The Lateran Treaty dates back to February 11, 1929. Under the treaty, Pope Pius XI was given full sovereignty over the tiny Vatican City State. Historian John Schmidt recalls what happened during ...

The new apse of the Lateran Basilica was inaugurated yesterday with much pomp. But for the fiction of his imprisonment the ceremony would have been performed by Leo XIII. in person, for the Pope ...