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Vatican Radio (Italian: Radio Vaticana; Latin: Statio Radiophonica Vaticana) is the official broadcasting service of Vatican City.. Established in 1931 by Guglielmo Marconi, today its programs are offered in 47 languages, and are sent out on short wave, DRM, medium wave, FM, satellite and the Internet.
It was constructed on land donated by the Knights of Columbus and is named for Pope St. Paul VI. [ 2 ] It lies partially in the Vatican City but mostly in Rome : the Italian part of the building is treated as an extraterritorial area of the Holy See , and is used by the pope as an alternative to St. Peter's Square when conducting his Wednesday ...
Pope Francis, who recently had the flu, was brought to a hospital in Rome for diagnostic testing after the papal audience Wednesday, the Vatican said, without giving further details. Earlier in ...
Biden led the U.S. delegation at the papal inauguration of Pope Francis in March 2013; he accompanied the pope during the pontiff's visit to the United States in September 2015; and met him at a Vatican conference on cancer research in April 2016. [46] [47] Then-Vice President George H. W. Bush met Pope John Paul II on September 19, 1987 in ...
Pope Francis is hosting the equivalent of a “conclave of comedians” by inviting Whoopi Goldberg, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Rock, Stephen Colbert, Conan O’Brien and others to Rome.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday praised Pope Francis for his work on LGBTQI issues after meeting the leader of the 1.4-billion-member Roman Catholic Church and other senior ...
The Sistine Chapel has maintained its function to the present day and continues to host the important services of the Papal Calendar, unless the Pope is travelling. There is a permanent choir, the Sistine Chapel Choir , for whom much original music has been written, the most famous piece being Gregorio Allegri 's Miserere .
Pastoral visits of Pope Francis. This is a list of pastoral visits of Pope Francis.His visit to the Philippines in January 2015 included the largest papal event in history with around 6–7 million attendees in his final Mass at Manila, surpassing the then-largest papal event at World Youth Day 1995 in the same venue twenty years earlier.