The world seems more fractured than at any point in recent memory since World War II. Yet amid this turmoil, the Vatican is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pope Francis celebrates Christmas Eve Mass on Thursday at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican as Italy went back into lockdown measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

As specialists cleaned and studied the rooms in the Apostolic Palace, they learned new information about the Renaissance ...

Pope Francis said the Second Vatican Council so shaped his theological and pastoral vision that perhaps he has not been as explicit as he should have been in highlighting those ties, especially ...

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.