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 ...

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 ...

The relic dispayed just above the tomb of St. Peter will be accessible for public viewing until Dec. 8, the solemnity of the ...

The Vatican is located within the city of Rome, encompassing 110 acres with a population of under 1,000, which makes it the world’s smallest country. While the Vatican may be small in size ...

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 ...

VATICAN CITY — Two days after opening the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica to inaugurate the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis ...

Francis and the entire College of Cardinals will celebrate a Mass of thanksgiving together in the Vatican basilica. While the pope typically goes to venerate a statue of the Virgin Mary close to ...

The Vatican is cutting the already shrinking pay packages of cardinals who head the Catholic Church's top offices in Rome by about 10% or 500 euros ($540) a month as the pope pursues a "zero ...

A meeting four years in the making said the ordination of women required further study, but it called for women to have more ...

Rome's Catholic ... song "Like a Prayer", featuring burning crosses, statues crying blood and Madonna seducing a black Jesus. In 2004, a Vatican group warned that her latest religious belief ...

Considered one of the world's best places to visit, Rome offers countless ... you’ll see masterpieces from the Vatican Museums’ collection, including the ancient statue of Laocoön and his ...