Rome Archives

American community finds a new home in Rome

U.S. Catholics in Rome, guided by the Paulist Fathers, have a new home, after the cloistered Cistercian nuns of Santa Susanna — where Americans have worshiped since 1922 — tried to evict them. They have finally settled in St. Patrick’s Church.

St. Peter’s Square fountains being shut off due to drought

All of Vatican City’s fountains will go dry, including those in its gardens, to help save water. Earlier this month, Rome’s water agency shut off several of the city’s ubiquitous water fountains due to drought, and now some neighborhoods might be facing their water being shut off eight hours a day.

Pope Francis was at home praying with the Church’s charismatics
- Commentary
- June 5, 2017
Rather than shunning individuals and movements that at first seem peculiar or different, the lesson of Pentecost is that despite having different parts, “we were all baptized into one body.” And sometimes the force of one of those parts, can serve to strengthen the whole if we allow it the space to operate and grow, including the Catholic Charismatic Renewal.
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Rome’s ‘city under the city’ reveals the pioneers of the faith
- Global Church, Vatican
- June 2, 2017
Rome is popularly known as the “Eternal City,” but there’s an even older complex located beneath the teeming streets and piazzas of the modern urban space, formed by the catacombs. Explorers who have charted and made accessible those spaces have, in effect, excavated the stories of the pioneers of the Christian faith.
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Francis appoints “pastor” as new vicar of Rome
- Vatican
- May 26, 2017
Pope Francis has chosen Bishop Angelo De Donatis to run the Diocese of Rome. A noted spiritual director in the diocese, he was chosen to lead the first Lenten spiritual exercises of the pontificate in 2014. In 2015, Francis himself consecrated De Donatis as an auxiliary bishop for the diocese.
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