Because the Vatican has published very little over the centuries about its finances and investments, most people don't know how it makes money as a sovereign city-state with its own economy.

The UN recognizes 193 countries. If you include the non-member observer states of Palestine and the Vatican City, then there are 195. The FIFA football list has 211 members. If we add disputed ...

The centre of Rome is easy to navigate on foot, and being here alone means you can enjoy the sights at your own pace. I would ...

The mascot, named Luce — which means “light” in Italian — is intended to engage a younger audience and guide visitors through ...

The city-state’s tribunal issued 816 pages of written motivations from its Dec. 16 verdicts in the Vatican’s “trial of the century.” The two-year trial of 10 people was borne out of the ...

The space, inaugurated Oct. 31, is intended to provide practical, artistic, and spiritual information to visitors of the ...

Advocates for survivors called it an exercise in obfuscation. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Vatican City Ten years after it was established, a Vatican commission on clerical sexual abuse ...

After a Vatican summit on the future of the Catholic Church that ended without enacting any major reforms, Pope Francis is ...

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican’s most highly anticipated gathering since the 1960s ended Saturday with the thorniest issues facing the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics largely unanswered. The Synod ...

(RNS) – Pope Francis asked the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors to draft a report to promote ‘transparency and accountability.’ VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A report published ...

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican is cutting the already shrinking pay packages of cardinals who head the Catholic Church's top offices in Rome by about 10% or 500 euros ($540) a month as the pope ...

Luce, he said, will also be the face of the Holy See’s pavilion at Expo 2025 in the Japanese city of Osaka. She will represent the Vatican’s pavilion theme, ‘Beauty Brings Hope,’ alongside ...