Imperial Rome boasted various obelisks: some taken from Egypt ... installed in the square in front of the Basilica of St. John Lateran. In the first century A.D., the Circus of Nero stood on ...

The Mass for the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate will mark the official beginning of his ministry as successor of ...

The most important church in Rome, the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, is celebrating its 1,700th anniversary on Nov. 9. The church is the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome and the seat of the ...

It’s a feast day for the universal Church, because it is the seat (the cathedra) of the bishop of Rome, the supreme pontiff. The Lateran — not St. Peter’s in the Vatican — is the cathedral ...

The universal Church celebrates the dedication anniversary of St. John Lateran as a feast day, the cathedral of Rome, to which all local Churches are united. After the first centuries of ...