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 ...

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.

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 ...

statues crying blood and Madonna seducing a black Jesus. In 2004, a Vatican group warned that her latest religious belief "Kabbalah", a mystical form of Judaism, was a potential threat to the ...

The frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, painted on the ceiling and walls in the Pope’s official residence in Vatican City, may be ...

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 ...

The Vatican Museums are one of Rome's top sights ... After a couple of hours of shuffling past ancient statues and ...

Davies pulled what she calls her film "community card" to snag private early morning Vatican tours for key members of ...

Delegates are officially barred from discussing specifics of the conversations that took place inside the Vatican's synod hall. The members told the National Catholic Reporter that hot-button ...

and creating a new glass pane to protect Michelangelo's statue of the Pieta, housed at the front of the church. The Vatican wants to have the works completed before the beginning of the 2025 ...