Online visitors can navigate the Vatican basilica’s mosaics, the cupola, the underground necropolis and Peter’s tomb. A ...

Vatican. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) I’m a historian of the medieval papacy and editor of the forthcoming three ...

In January 2010, Pope Francis' predecessor covertly left the Vatican for a secret outing ... XII skeptic who started researching the pope's history with Jews at the request of Jewish and Catholic ...

Papal elections aren't always as dramatic as "Conclave," a new film starring Ralph Fiennes, but the history behind the ...

COMMENTARY: ‘The Vatican’s silence on human rights and religious freedom in China is profoundly disappointing and dangerously ...

According to church history, the apostles Peter and Paul arrived ... This was outside the city walls to the west, at a place known as the Vatican. A different tradition records that Peter was ...

The Vatican has said that the pilgrimage to Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, can yield ‘spiritual benefits’ ...

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.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Visitors to Rome will have the opportunity to experience St. Peter’s Basilica in a new way as part of an ...

Ahead of the 2025 Jubilee Year, a virtual portal developed with Microsoft will let millions of pilgrims and tourists explore ...

Prati, the neighborhood surrounding the Vatican, is popular for shopping ... Expert English-speaking guides bring the history of the Colosseum to life, with recent visitors noting the guides ...