The Vatican Museums are one of Rome's top sights ... Donato Bramante created the original spiral staircase in the 1500s in a ...

One common-held theory is that spiral staircases were first installed in historic castles as vertical baffles, tiring out enemy infiltrators before they could make it to the top. This is why ...

Mathrubhumi photo While we were post graduate students at the Kerala University’s Department of Economics in Karyavattom in ...

Cardinal Vincent Nichols says the idea of a burning Hell is not part of Catholic teaching (pic shows Pope Francis) The Vatican has denied that Pope Francis told a well-known Italian journalist ...

The Vatican tribunal says it convicted a cardinal of aggravated fraud and other charges because of his “objectively inexplicable behavior” in paying a self-styled intelligence analyst more ...

At the intersection of the axis, there is a spiral staircase that winds around a chimney and offers a pleasant sitting area by the fireplace. "The building is designed as a lightweight single ...

But Belgians weren't the only victims. From 1950 to 1970, the Vatican sent 3,500 Italian children to America on something called an orphan visa. The trouble was most were not orphans. Like their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stair lifts are a great option for older adults or those with mobility issues looking to make their two-story home more accessible. Choosing the right stair lift can greatly improve both safety ...

Pope Francis on Thursday told employees of the Vatican's extensive multi-language media operations to expect budget cuts as part of wider belt-tightening efforts that have recently targeted cardinals.