Vatican City is the world’s smallest fully independent nation-state. It is ruled by the pope, who is the head of the Holy See, the central government of the Catholic Church.

Leo will disappear further this weekend when he begins a six-week vacation in his first break since his historic election May ...

In contrast to the Holy See, Vatican City derives revenues from a few small industries. It employs a labor force of 4,800 people who interact with millions of tourists annually. These travelers visit ...

In 1929, Holy See and Italian delegations met at the Lateran Palace in Rome to sign the treaty that would recognise Vatican City as an independent state.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Kevin Farrell remembers the day Pope Francis asked him to be the camerlengo, the Vatican official who runs the Holy See after the death of one pope and before the ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- “To support the service of the Apostolic See and considering the current economic situation,” Pope Francis established a permanent Vatican commission dedicated to ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Kevin Farrell remembers the day Pope Francis asked him to be the camerlengo, the Vatican official who runs the Holy See after the… ...