Some believe the basilica on Vatican Hill was built over the martyred bones of the apostle Peter—but is that true? After ...

The painting is part of a series of frescoes that cover the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.

Vatican City is the physical area where the Holy See resides. The Holy See generates revenue from Peter’s Pence, the 8th-century term for donations that are received from Catholics all over the ...

CitizenM Isola Tiberina is directly on the River Tiber, in a perfect location for exploring all of Rome's major sights as ...

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 ...

Approximately 40,000 visitors enter St. Peter's Basilica each day, and now they can gain deeper insights into what they are ...

(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’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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Vatican tribunal said Wednesday it convicted a cardinal of aggravated fraud and other charges because of his “objectively inexplicable behavior” in paying a self-styled ...

Next, it was time to visit the Vatican City. Although the queue for St ... The terrace overlooks the local area which, considering it's so central, is very peaceful. Serve yourself a glass of ...

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 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 ...