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

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

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 ...

The heart of the project is the creation of a digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica through advanced photogrammetry and ...

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 ...

Formally known as the Cathedra Sancti Petri Apostoli, or more simply as Cathedra Petri, the chair has held a revered place in ...

The Vatican and Microsoft on Monday unveiled a digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica that uses artificial intelligence to ...

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

Pope Francis told members and staff of the Dicastery for Communication that the Vatican and the Catholic Church need their ...

But we all know how helpful that has been in conflicts throughout history. “Conclave” might ... taking audiences inside the secretive halls of the Vatican in the immediate aftermath of the ...

The space, inaugurated Oct. 31, is intended to provide practical, artistic, and spiritual information to visitors of the ...