Vatican City, Vatican City - October 30, 2024 ""Peace is a gift of the Spirit and War is always, always, always a defeat. In War no one wins, everyone loses. Let us pray for Peace."This is how Pope ...

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

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.

For the 12th consecutive year, Pope Francis visited a Roman cemetery November 2. This year, he prayed for parents facing ...

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 ...

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 ...

The multiyear synod process had sparked great hopes for change, especially for women, who have long complained that they are ...

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 ...

Meet ‘Luce’ – the Vatican ’s official mascot for the 2025 Jubilee, kicking off on Christmas Eve. As unbelievable as it sounds ...

The Oscar-nominated actor starring in two new films – "Conclave" and "The Return" – talks about the draw of playing ...

Beijing and the Vatican announced on Tuesday that the accord, previously renewed in two-year increments, had been renewed ...