However, despite its size, the Vatican has had an outsized impact and influence on the financial world thanks to its investments in real estate, banking and private enterprises. Those new to the inner ...

Despite its diminutive size, the Holy See has a seat at the world's diplomatic tables. Its own envoys to other countries — usually archbishops — are called nuncios.

President-elect Donald Trump announced his pick for Ambassador to the Holy See via his social media site, Truth Social, Friday afternoon. Brian Burch is the president of Catholic Vote, a political ...