Irvin Ungar with Vatican hosts in the Sistine Hall ... to which Szyk had added a crest of the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine), which thoroughly interested my viewers. As I moved from explaining ...

Then again, the weight in question was an unusually hefty one, given it came in the form of Ripley Castle, a vast and ancient ...

This is a message for the taxi drivers of the southside of Glasgow: Larry Dean has been having you on. “I find it uncomfortable telling people I’m a comic,” says the 35-year-old funnyman. “I usually ...

There couldn’t have been a better mascot for fashion than the snake, which is slithering its way into the Lunar New Year as the dragon sashays away. The snake, after all, sheds its skin, making it a ...

The Vatican City State has toughened sanctions for those who try to illegally enter its territory in areas where free access is not allowed. In a decree issued last month by the Holy See ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Donald Trump might not be president yet, but world leaders have been preparing for his second term, including the head of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics, Pope Francis.

A man has caused minor damage at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after jumping onto the main altar and knocking over 19th-century candelabra, worth several thousand dollars. Video posted on ...

The Vatican Observatory’s summer school, known as “Specola,” has already selected students for its next edition. During the month of June, 25 students who were selected from among 120 ...

Rome — Pope Francis fell Thursday and hurt his right arm, the Vatican said, just weeks after another apparent fall resulted in a bad bruise on his chin. Francis didn't break his arm, but a sling ...

(Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen Did the pope endorse a Vatican-style ministate for a Muslim community on Thursday? The press in Albania seems to think so, after Pope Francis met with a delegation ...

Trump's envoy pick Burch criticised pope's LGBTQ stance Vatican officials cautious about papal critics like Burch Pope not looking for diplomatic spat with US, source says VATICAN CITY ...