The Vatican Museums has unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms. These are the spectacularly ...

Sandro Magister, the Vatican analyst who most closely follows the comings, goings and internecine feuds of Vatican officials, said the "disaster" of governance began unfolding in the 1980s, in the ...

Of course, these are small numbers compared to the overall size of the Vatican’s financial empire. In 2004, the AP estimated that the Holy See’s real estate, excluding St. Peter’s Basilica ...

Whiskey drinking and Latin dancing… how Pope Francis conquered ‘snake pit’ Vatican to shape modern Catholic Church. Francis was far more open and engaged than any pope before him ...

On May 7, 2025, 133 Catholic cardinals will gather in the Sistine Chapel to choose the next pope. It’s a vote that could influence not just the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, but global ...

Bankers' best guesses about the Vatican's wealth put it at $10 billion to $15 billion. Of this wealth, Italian stockholdings alone run to $1.6 billion, 15% of the value of listed shares on ...

News; Nation/World; Vatican forced to clarify Pope’s praise of Russia’s past empire Aug. 29, 2023 Updated Tue., Aug. 29, 2023 at 8:47 p.m. Pope Francis greets the crowd from the window of the ...