Stefano Costantino / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images The Vatican’s famous Apollo Belvedere—a marble statue of the Greek god of archery, music and dance—is finally back on public ...

Following the discovery of the statue in Rome in 1489, Pope Julius II requested the Apollo Belvedere to be brought to the Vatican in the early 16th century to be part of a papal collection known ...

Francis also stressed that there "was no idolatrous intention" in bringing the statues to the church in Rome. The Vatican earlier condemned the theft, with senior officials saying the statues ...

The statue of the Virgin chosen by the Vatican to represent hope during the opening of the Jubilee comes from Battipaglia, a center particularly renowned for buffalo mozzarella. The 19th-century ...

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican on Friday overhauled its process for evaluating alleged visions of the Virgin Mary, weeping statues and other seemingly supernatural phenomena that have marked church ...

Claims of religious phenomena are said to have soared in recent years in an era of social media When are reports of a weeping statue fake ... themes addressed in the Vatican's new guidelines ...

the transcendent spirituality of Michelangelo's paintings and the true meaning of working inside the Vatican. The ancient Romans believed that every place had a genius loci, a guardian deity that ...

Francis and the entire College of Cardinals will celebrate a Mass of thanksgiving together in the Vatican basilica. While the pope typically goes to venerate a statue of the Virgin Mary close to ...