St. Peter's Square (Piazza San Pietro) is the massive open-air plaza located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City and was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini between 1656 and 1667.

The Via della Conciliazione, the grand avenue leading to St. Peter’s Square, was transformed on Sunday into a vibrant ...

Catholic bishops from Asia, Africa and Latin America are demanding climate justice for the parts of the world most affected ...

Pope Francis made a surprise entrance to St. Peter’s Square during a special Jubilee Mass for the sick and health workers on Sunday, marking his first public appearance at the Vatican since ...

Under a partly cloudy sky and with temperatures in the 70s, several hundred worshipers gathered Sunday morning under two ...

Pope Leo XVI received a blessing June 18 from three newly ordained Roman Catholic priests from Kansas at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City.

Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday addressed what he called the “fatigue of living” as one of the ailments afflicting modern society, and he urged the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square to face reality ...

Just hours after the United States bombed the sites of three nuclear-enrichment facilities in Iran, Pope Leo XVI called the ...