The area around Lake Albano has been a favourite getaway for Roman rulers since the time of the Emperor Domitian in the first ...

As specialists cleaned and studied the rooms in the Apostolic Palace, they learned new information about the Renaissance ...

The Vatican Museums on June 26 unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms, the spectacularly frescoed reception rooms of the Apostolic Palace that ...

Occasionally they remember to call him by his new name, Pope Leo XIV, but it’s unfamiliar to their tongue. One of the guests ...

The world seems more fractured than at any point in recent memory since World War II. Yet amid this turmoil, the Vatican is ...

In hopes of simply cutting their losses and moving forward, the Vatican defrocked McCarrick, sending him to live his remaining days internally exiled as a pauper in an undisclosed religious community.

World Dig at ancient king’s throne room unearths 26,000-pound carving. ‘Spectacular’ By Aspen Pflughoeft May 14, 2025 4:38 PM ...

Vatican Media/Francesco Sforza/­Handout via Reuters It's not certain that this means the new pope will live in these apartments. He could choose a humbler abode, as Francis did.

The Vatican released videos of the Room of Tears ahead of the conclave. The Vatican also released video of the long tables where the cardinals will sit in the Sistine Chapel. Name cards are out, too.