Vatican removes salty white film coating Michelangelo's 'The Last Judgment'

Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgement” is getting a facial, with restorers removing a chalky white film of salt that has accumulated over the Renaissance masterpiece since its last major renovation ...
National Catholic Reporter

Climate change, crowds prompt maintenance on Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment'

Visitors often reach the Sistine Chapel overheated after walking through non-air-conditioned galleries. Combined with rising temperatures those conditions have led to more sweat in the sacred space.
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Inside the Vatican: An Exclusive Walk Through the Pope’s Private Corridors

We crossed an invisible border, a gate without a sign but heavily guarded. Beyond it lay a threshold now out of reach for most. In that instant, we left Rome behind to enter Vatican City. But not the ...
New York Post

Pope Leo returns artifacts from Vatican Museum to Indigenous peoples from Canada

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Saturday returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada as part of the Catholic Church’s reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture in the ...
WTVD

Vatican will return dozens of artifacts to Indigenous groups in Canada as gesture of reconciliation

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican is expected to soon announce that it will return a few dozen artifacts to Indigenous communities in Canada as part of its reckoning with the Catholic Church's troubled role ...
National Catholic Register

Vatican Issues Stamp Honoring Ukrainian Catholics As War Enters Fourth Year

The stamp features the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv.