Tag: Rome

Preparations are well underway in St Joachim’s Church in Lidcombe as a group of youngsters and their parents get ready to head to Rome to witness the canonisation of Blessed Carlo Acutis.

A day before Pope Francis sent a much-welcome audio message from hospital thanking people for their prayers, Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP commented on the “spiritual fittingness” of the timing of his prolonged illness during the season of Lent.

An app to help travellers locate churches, relics, and tombs of saints has been released by a group of Rome-based Franciscan Friars.

Signs around the Eternal City declare "Roma si trasforma"—"Rome is transformed" as an explanation for the ubiquitous infrastructure projects underway, including the restoration of iconic sculptures and monuments, ahead of Jubilee 2025, a Holy Year that begins Christmas Eve.

Borgo Pio is the closest neighbourhood to the Vatican, a street full of restaurants and souvenir stores. And although their owners know that they are in one of the most privileged areas in the world, they now worry as the city council has just begun work on their streets.

9 November marks the 1,700th anniversary of the Dedication of St John Lateran, the cathedral of Rome and the "Mother and Head of all the Churches in the City and the World."

One of the pope's favourite painting, Marc Chagall's White Crucifixion, will be the one that pilgrims visiting Rome from 27 November onwards can contemplate.

George Weigel gathers with young Catholic friends, "The Pizza Group," in Rome where he believes they represent the future of Catholic evangelism.

The long awaited Cause of canonisation of Eileen O’Connor has reached a massive milestone in Rome. After many years of preparation the collected documentation has been presented to the Roman authorities so that they can weigh up the merits of the Cause and hopefully advance it to the next stage.

From the 21 new cardinals Pope Francis announced on 7 October, cardinal-elect Baldassare Reina has been appointed as the new Vicar General of the Diocese of Rome. 

Very much on the beaten path of tourists and pilgrims to Rome, a frescoed ode to the rosary is visited by as few as a dozen people a day.

Pope Francis spent the day at Salesian Pontifical University, where he held the third and last meeting with priests of the Roman Diocese.