Aerial view of Rome and Vatican from police helicopter patrol. Posted: April 25, 2025 | Last updated: April 25, 2025. The body of the 88-year-old pope, who died on Monday in his rooms at the ...

For the next six weeks, Opie and her camera visited the Vatican City daily to construct an outsider’s view of this arcane world, which sustains rules that govern 1.4bn lives.

Its massive walls, topped by stone eagles and statues of saints, dwarf the crowds of tourists queuing to see the treasures inside its museums. The Vatican may look like a medieval fortress, but ...

Aerial view of Rome and Vatican from police helicopter patrol. The body of the 88-year-old pope, who died on Monday in his rooms at the Vatican's Santa Marta guesthouse after suffering a stroke, ...