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

Director Edward Berger delivers a compelling mystery with sprinkles of satire in “Conclave.” In the film, Cardinal Thomas ...

Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous fresco of a biblical flood on the ceiling of ...

The ecclesiastical jargon is no more; it has retired, giving way to a more creative language. The latest example was provided ...

Pope Francis received in audience members of “Project Hope,” a program of accompaniment for the healing of those who suffer ...

Pope Francis delivers his Sunday Angelus message from a window of the Apostolic Palace overlooking St. Peter’s Square on Oct.

Previous pontiffs lived here, at the Vatican's opulent Apostolic Palace. Eric Vandeville/GAMMA Pope Francis lives here, in a small suite in the Vatican guesthouse. A CNN investigation found that ...

Pope Francis pointed out the saints he likes to call “the saints ‘next door,’ the everyday ones, hidden, who go forward in ...

From the window of the Apostolic Palace, Pope Francis greets a local group of Emergency supporting Article 11 of the Italian ...

Pope Francis said he is praying for the victims of the floods in Spain and the suffering of innocent civilians in the ...

The selection of bishops has been a debated issue since apostolic times. There is no perfect way to select bishops.

I always warn people to remember that a document like this pertains to the whole church, not just the church in the U.S.