After four rounds of voting, the cardinals summoned for the Conclave reached a consensus to elect the new pope ...

From St. Peter to Pope Francis, the history of the papacy in the Catholic Church spans more than two thousand years. The pope ...

Let’s take a look back at history and explore the complete list of popes throughout the Church’s nearly 2,000-year history.

St. Athanasius, celebrated on May 2, was a fourth-century bishop who is known as “the father of orthodoxy” for his dedication ...

Snow fell that summer night in August 352 on the hill where the basilica now stands. Another legend has Pope Liberius being told in a dream of the summer snowfall. According to the Vatican, however, ...

The legend goes that the Virgin Mary came to both Pope Liberius and an Italian aristocrat asking for the church to be constructed in her honor in a place that would be miraculously revealed. Rome’s ...

Miraculous location. Legend has it that the basilica's location was chosen after the Virgin Mary appeared in a dream to Pope Liberius and a Roman nobleman. In the dreams, she instructs them to ...

Another legend has Pope Liberius being told in a dream of the summer snowfall. According to the Vatican, however, nothing remains of that original church. Construction of the current basilica ...

Another legend has Pope Liberius being told in a dream of the summer snowfall. According to the Vatican, however, nothing remains of that original church. Construction of the current basilica ...

Another legend has Pope Liberius being told in a dream of the summer snowfall. According to the Vatican, however, nothing remains of that original church. Construction of the current basilica ...

It is one of the oldest in the city of Rome and dates to AD358, where according to tradition the Virgin Mary told Pope Liberius in a dream to build a church where snow would fall. Earlier on ...